In this tutorial, you will learn how to write an essay about any country.
This method will work for a paper you have to write for Sociology, Economics, a History class, or for any other discipline you can imagine.
The biggest challenge when writing an essay is coming up with material.
And the easiest way to keep your ideas flowing is to break your topic into subtopics.
Let’s see how this works.
Our subject is a country. Any country.
How would we go about breaking the idea of a country into aspects or parts?
What are some of the parts a country may have?
The easiest way to break up a topic is to use the Power of Three!
And which three aspects are relevant to any country? Which three things does any country have?
- Any country has a political aspect. Politics is all about the government. It answers the question, “What are the political forces and relationships among them?”
- Any country has a social aspect. This part of the paper will answer the question, “How do people live in this country?” The social aspect is about the people of the country.
- Any country also has an economy. And the economic aspect is about the money, the finances. It answers the questions:
- “What are the major economic forces in this country”
- “How do they shape the country?”
- “Is the country going through an economic hardship?”
These are three wonderful ways to discuss and to structure an essay about a country.
What else can we do?
We can talk about a country in terms of the past, the present, and the future. Let’s see what this looks like.
- The past. This section will answer the question, “How was this country in the past?”
- The present. This section will the answer the question, “How is the country doing today?”
- The future. This part will answer the question, “What can be predicted about this country?”
Again, this is a wonderful way to discuss any country.
You can combine these different aspects to form a longer essay.
In fact, you can write as long an essay as you want.
Let’s say we’re writing about a country in terms of the past, the present and the future. What could we write about in each section?
We are already using the Power of Three to create the main structure. Now we can use the Power of Three to break up each of the sections into three subsections.
- And we can talk about the political, social ,and economic aspects in section 1 about the past. In other words, how was this country in the past politically, socially, and economically?
- In the next section, we discuss how this country fares in the present politically, socially, and economically.
- And finally, what can be predicted about this country politically, socially, and economically?
Hope this makes sense.
You can actually do this differently. You can have three sections that are devoted to politics, society, and economics.
You can still use the Power of Three, and you can use it in reverse.
- In the first section, you would talk about the past, the present, and the future of this country in terms of politics.
- In the next section, you would talk about the society in the past, in the present, and in the future.
- And in the final section, you would talk about the past, the present and the future of this country’s economy.
Note that countries have a lot more different aspects to them. For example, you can discuss any country in terms of:
- Industry
- Ecology
- Culture
- Religions
- Ethnic diversity
You can use any of these aspects. Just don’t forget to use the Power of Three to make your life easier 🙂
If you struggle with essay writing in general, check out this tutorial I wrote on essay writing for beginners.
Cheers,
TP