Example Essays

Example:  Illustrating Ideas

Examples Are:

• Drawn from your personal experience, observations, and reading.
• Help you show rather than tell by:
• Supplying concrete details to support abstract ideas
• Providing specifics to explain generalizations
• Giving definite references to clarify vague statements

· Examples encourage the reader to feel one way or another about an issue.

· Examples provide exciting details that are concrete, specific and definite.