August 26th, 2011
What Are Deductive Essays?
Whenever we talk about deductive writing, the first things which come into our minds are murders, crime scenes, detectives, code breaking etc. However, it is not necessary that deductive essays have to be only about them. Deductive writing is just like solving a puzzle or a complicated situation in a logical way.
Deductive essays are divided into three basic parts; premise, evidence and conclusion. Premise is a factual statement based on what has happened. For an example, “The flower vase was broken” is the premise. This has to be based on facts. This is followed by the second part which is the evidence. The evidence is related to premise.
As an example, consider this “Tom was playing near the vase”. The last part is based on careful and logical evaluation for first two parts. For the above premise and evidence, the most logical conclusion is “Tom broke the flower vase”. We often do such simple deduction in our day to day lives.
However, the topic given to you might not be as simple as this. Deductive writing helps in solving crime scenes. The premise tells what has happened and the evidence gives an idea that who might be involved. The mystery is finally solved in the conclusion which is deduced after considering all the previous information.
It’s always better to write an essay proposal before you begin. In this, you have to write down how you plan to go on with your essay. Here are some essay proposal examples which you may include: Your final topic, what type of content you are planning to include and the resources from which you would collect your material.
Deductive essays check how much imaginary you could be but in a logical way. You just have to conclude according to premise and evidence and the situation is solved.