First three essays- Number one- Edgar Allen Poe

1. The Philosophy of Composition by Edgar Allen Poe

2. The writer used quotes for the introductory paragraph. The first part of the essay used this quote:"By the way, are you aware that Godwin wrote his Caleb Williams backwards? He first involved his hero in a web of difficulties, forming the second volume, and then, for the first, cast about him for some mode of accounting for what had been done.”

3. There is a radical error, I think, in the usual mode of constructing a story. Either history affords a thesis—or one is suggested by an incident of the day—or, at best, the author sets himself to work in the combination of striking events to form merely the basis of his narrative—designing, generally, to fill in with description, dialogue, or autorial comment, whatever crevices of fact, or action, may, from page to page, render themselves apparent.

4. The introduction was effective in the sense that it helped set the mode of the rest of the essay from the begining. If you start out strong in your paragraph from the principle words, then you can create a more effective and interesting story for your reader.

5. A quotation is used for this material. Out of four possible methods he choose to use quotations to finish out his essay

6. The use of quotations at the end of a essay could help or hurt you. In most cases it will probably help you out because it solidifies your essay and gives the reader an understanding of the story. It is a bit difficult to try to get your whole paragraph to describe itself in one quote.