Essay Review

A Brutal Review Continued

Writers should present their essays free of errors and with a clear topic. Unfortunately, that is not the case in, “The Greatest Nature Essay Ever,” by Brian Doyle. His essay consists of run-on sentences, a misleading title, and is in need of revision. The author seems to lack basic education when it comes to writing an essay. “The Greatest Nature Essay Ever,” is anything but great and had nothing to do with nature.

Doyle’s essay, “The Greatest Nature Essay Ever,” leads the reader to believe they will be reading about a nature essay. The essay starts off by describing how the reader will feel as they begin to read the essay. The reader starts to wonder when they will start actually reading about nature in this essay, but it soon becomes apparent that the essay is not about nature but in all actuality is about description. The reader starts questioning the author’s choice of title and the overall essay. As the essay progresses further, the reader can’t help but notice the numerous run-on sentences and the need for revision. As the last sentence of the essay is finished, the reader can’t help but feel cheated and mislead by the author.

The topic of an essay should be clear and never misleading. Doyle’s title is anything but what the essay is about, and that becomes apparent by the second paragraph. He leads the reader to believe the essay is going to be about nature, when in fact it is about descriptive writing. The reader is able to see that by the second paragraph when Doyle writes, “My God, stories do have roaring power, stories are the most crucial and necessary food, how come we never hardly say that out loud?” (37). It is now quite clear that the essay is definitely not about nature. Whether the author intended to mislead his readers or not is up to his readers. It is this writer’s opinion that Doyle had intentions of writing an essay about nature, but got lost in description.

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