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Cf. Paul Graham's “The Age of the Essay” (2004) http://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html http://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html Graham's essay is and describes a fif

by osteele 10y ago

Cf. Paul Graham's “The Age of the Essay” (2004) http://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html http://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html Graham's essay is and describes a fifth category of essay. Graham calls this approach “meandering”; it might also be called “exploratory”.

idlewords 10y ago
"An army of words escorting a corporal of thought."
- akkartik 10y ago
  I know you, "dabblers and blowhards" guy :) I don't agree with you, but I am aware of you.
- igravious 10y ago
  Beware the "One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked."
personlurking 10y ago
Thanks. I hadn't read that one yet (and it did its job - it surprised me). It was only about 1000x better than the article being discussed here in the comments.
dredmorbius 10y ago
I hadn't read that for a while, and as another comment notes, that's a much better discussion of how to write an essay than TFA here. Interesting too that pg picks up on the Trivium and Quadrivium concepts from medieval education. I'd run across these independently myself and found them profoundly interesting. The trivium, for example, is an input, processing, output system: grammar, logic, rhetoric.