Casual Essay: An Excellent Opportunity to Work with the Muse

Have you been asked by your professor to write a casual essay? Is it puzzling? Are you in a deadlock? Come on, stop panicking. You must be perplexed by the word combination “casual essay”. You have got accustomed to formal essays as pieces of academic writing. Now you are going to do absolutely different type of work. You do not even imagine how lucky you are!

To write a casual essay, means to become really absorbed in the work of imaginative literature (if literature is your subject). It means to go to the place of the historic event (if your casual essay is on history). Casual essay unties your hands and sends you a Muse. Work together and have fun!

Useful Tips for Casual Essay Writing

Remember: Unique manner of presentation (form of your casual essay) is the key to success. Choose the form of your essay that will ensure pleasant reading for you as well as for your professor. Be creative. You may choose any form you like as long as it is related to the topic and the subject.

Consider the hints, please (but set your imagination free):

• An interview of the main character;
• An alternative finale of the literary work;
• “What Would I Do if I Were …”;
• The discussion panel with the characters of the literary work;
• “I Suddenly Appear … (insert the historic place)”.

You may present here the flow of thoughts on the topic of the casual essay; this is the essay where “stream of consciousness” is welcome. Remember to make your “stream of consciousness” readable so that your professor could not lose his/her way in it.

Language: you are free to use colloquial vocabulary but remember to keep a civil tongue in the casual essay.

Humor: Try to amuse the professor by your sparkling humor if it is appropriate in this casual essay.