Specific

The specific characteristics of Philippine essays are:

Thesis: The main idea of the essay, It is your main insight or idea about a text or topic.

Motive: Defined in the introductory paragraphs, motive is the intellectual context you establish for your topic.

Evidence: Evidence is the data, facts, examples, or details that you refer to, quote, or summarize to support your thesis.

Analysis: Analysis breaks down, interprets and comments on the data,

Key Terms: Key terms are the recurring terms or basic oppositions that an argument rests upon, usually literal but sometimes a ruling metaphor.

Structure: Structure is the sequence of main sections or sub-topics and the turning points between them.

Stitching: Stitching ties together the parts of an argument, most often by using transition words to indicate how a new section, paragraph or sentence follows from the one immediately previous. Stiching is also used by referring back to key words or phrases quoted or stated earlier.

Sources: persons or documents, referred to, summarized, or quoted, that help a writer demonstrate the truth of his or her argument.

Reflecting: Pausing in your demonstration to reflect on it or raise or answer a question about it

Orienting: Using bits of information, explanation, and summary that orients readers who are not experts in the subject and enables them to follow the argument.

Stance: Defined by features such as style and tone, stance is the implied relationship between you, the writer, to your readers and subject. Stance should be established in the first few paragraphs of the essay and remain consistentent throughout the essay.

Style: Style is the choices you make of words and sentence structure.

Title: The title should both interest and inform.