"a compelling essay" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe an essay that evokes strong interest and emotion from the reader. For example, "The writer produced a compelling essay about the beauty of nature."
Her findings are presented in a compelling essay in the show's catalog.
I worked to craft a compelling essay that both told my unique story and reinforced my "personal brand".
That said, here are seven suggestions to help you write a compelling essay: What do prospective applicants make of Mr. Allen's suggestions here?
Hamza Walker, the director of education at the Renaissance Society, in Chicago, contributes a compelling essay to the catalogue, entitled "Renigged," which explores the vicissitudes of African-Americans in their quest for individuality.
They should be able to read a chapter book, write a story and a compelling essay; know how to add, subtract, divide and multiply numbers; detect patterns in complex phenomena; use evidence to support an opinion; be part of a group of people who are not their family; and engage in an exchange of ideas in conversation.
Born in Karlsruhe in 1952, when the generation of Stockhausen, Boulez and Nono were in their first, iconoclastic phase of maturity, Rihm had already written a symphony as a teenager (it's astonishingly good, too, a compelling essay in a wildly expressive atonal language that teems with ideas, energy, and meaning).
Djenguet's infectious enthusiasm makes this a compelling visual essay.
In 2006, the respected US economist Diane Lim wrote a compelling online essay in praise of taxes.
When I moved to Jerusalem, in the summer of 1988, having fallen in love with the city's physical splendors and historical depth, along with its relentless focus on questions of life's ultimate purpose that my American world kept shrink-wrapped, I brought with me to Israel an old, battered paperback edition of one of Scholem's most compelling essay collections, "On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism".
Adam Gopnik's compelling essay on the U.S. prison system reveals disturbing truths about mass incarceration in the United States (A Critic at Large, January 30th).
The most compelling essays will run as a series on The Huffington Post.
