Discuss the single concept to explore from Rebecca Skloots The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. There, you wrote of the concerns, the controversies, the causes, the solutions that may surround that topic.
You may have also found in writing that essay, it was necessary to narrow, qualify, explain, and ultimately define the concept you chose to follow. The specification of your topic there now becomes the focus of your concept essay.
A concept essay is a little definition, a little example, a little description, and some personal narrative.
One of the most common of academic essays, it seeks to make the vague, the general, the abstract, the intangible better known and more concretely appreciated by clear and conscious connections to real experience.
You will likely have to begin this essay with a general definition of how you interpret the meaning of your chosen topic. For instance, if you choose to write about the concept of poverty, what is poverty to you, in your own words? What or whom do you associate with being impoverished? How do you see that kind of life? Why do you feel that way? What is your own personal experience, or how do you see yourself within the topic of poverty?
