Teaching Essay in Nigeria from the Examiner’s Perspectives

Abstract

The variance between teachers’ approach to essay writing and the examiners’ expectation has greatly affected the
performance of the candidates. This is because the candidates go to examination in search of expository, argumentative,
narrative, descriptive essays and others, while the examiner marks them on content, organization, expression and mechanical
accuracy. This paper calls on the teachers of English to teach the candidates according to the expectations of the examiners,
especially on how to effectively use the styles of expository, argumentative, narrative, descriptive and others, to explicate the
content, organization, expression and mechanical accuracy as required by the examiners in essay writing.