Whitehouse's Essay & Composition

Author: Yuba Raj Kadel
Publisher: Whitehouse Publication
Language: English
Target Audience: Secondary to higher-secondary level students, teachers, and learners of English composition
Purpose: To provide a comprehensive guide for improving writing skills across various forms of English writing, both formal and informal.

📚 Contents in Detail

1. Essay Writing

Covers a wide range of current and general topics, including:

Environmental issues (e.g., Pollution, Climate Change)

Social issues (e.g., Drug Abuse, Women Empowerment)

Educational themes (e.g., Importance of Education, Online Learning)

Provides formats, outlines, and model essays with well-structured introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions.

Includes both argumentative and descriptive styles.

2. Letter Writing

Formal Letters:

Applications, complaint letters, leave requests, letters to the editor, business letters.

Informal Letters:

Letters to friends and relatives, invitations, thank-you notes.

Clearly explains the format, tone, and purpose of different letter types.

3. Paragraph Writing

Provides short and long paragraphs on various common and important topics.

Teaches how to organize ideas logically and maintain unity and coherence.

4. Moral Stories

Includes short moral tales that promote values such as honesty, kindness, hard work, and patience.

Designed to develop reading comprehension, moral reasoning, and storytelling skills.

5. Comprehension

Offers reading passages followed by questions and answers to improve understanding.

Focuses on extracting key ideas, vocabulary building, and inference skills.

6. Curriculum Vitae (CV) Writing

Teaches how to prepare a professional CV.

Includes sample CVs for students, job seekers, and freshers.

Covers key components: personal details, objective, education, skills, and experience.

7. Biography Writing

Provides templates and samples to write biographies of famous personalities.

Encourages understanding of chronological structure, important life events, and achievements.

8. Dialogue Writing

Includes real-life and creative dialogues to enhance conversational English.

Helps students understand context, tone, and use of expressions.

Situations include: at the shop, with a doctor, between friends, and more.

9. Most Common Irregular Verbs

Lists frequently used irregular verbs with base, past, and past participle forms.

Useful for mastering tense consistency and correct grammar usage.

10. List of Some English Proverbs

Provides common English proverbs along with meanings and examples.

Helps in enriching vocabulary and understanding figurative language.

11. Tense Chart

A comprehensive chart covering all 12 tenses.

Includes structure, examples, and usage of each tense.

Makes verb tense learning easy and practical for writing and speaking.

✍️ Salient Features

Student-friendly and exam-oriented.

Easy language and clear instructions.

Model writings that serve as templates.

Useful for both self-study and classroom teaching.

Builds strong foundation in written English.