How to Write an Essay: A Beginner's Guide

By: Sean O'Neill

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

This is a practical book. By the time you finish reading it, you will have all the tools you need to write well-structured, logical and convincing essays. It is the only guide to essay-writing you will ever need and is ideal for high-school and college students This book provides detailed instructions on the four main essay types: argumentative, expository, descriptive and narrative. “How to Write an Essay: A Beginner’s Guide” explains all the necessary techniques to enable your essay to be a success and achieve top grades.

Underwhelming but worth it.

I found most of the information to be useful (even with the Virtual Voice narrator.)
There were a few sections I had to ignore (step by step instructions on using word processing software, a chapter devoted to proper use of punctuation... in an audio book... narrated by V-V) Also, like a form of tourette syndrome, "Table of Contents" would be said with no context.
Still, enough good information to make it worth the quick listen.

Covers the Topic, Virtual Voice not so Good

The text is well organized, like the essays he talks about. The price was right. The Virtual Voice was OK through most of the book but suffered when it was reading from a list or reading the examples at the end of the book. The examples in the back covered sentences written differently; the wrong way versus the right way, but they sounded identical because the author added or removed commas or other punctuation, the reader didn't or couldn't distinguish the differences. I think this is a good example of a book that should be read rather than listened to. A PDF would have been an improvement to the process.

A sample of a good essay would be a welcomed improvement.