The phrase "adapted the essay" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the process of modifying or revising an essay to better fit a specific purpose or audience.
Example: "After receiving feedback from my professor, I adapted the essay to improve its clarity and argumentation."
Alternatives: "revised the essay" or "modified the essay".
So I went back and helped her adapt the essay to bring out the most interesting and authentic element of her story.
"The SantaLand Diaries," a play adapted from the famous essay by David Sedaris, is the apotheosis of the break room.
Some Baldwin film projects: In 1955, Baldwin and his close friend the editor Sol Stein — who put together "Notes of a Native Son" — adapted his essay "Equal in Paris" for television.
A tall, lanky guy with a banjo sang a tune adapted from an essay by the Dust Bowl folk singer Woody Guthrie.
Main Photograph: Juan Carlos/Virginia Quarterly Review This article is adapted from an essay published in the autumn 2016 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review.
Adapted from an essay by Waldemar Januszczak in the new book The Rolling Stones, which will be published in December by TASCHEN.
If you were as taken as I was with Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book "Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide," released this month (and adapted into an essay that ran in the Times), then you'll be just as interested in the documentary "Fatal Promises," directed by Kat Rohrer, which is showing at Cinema Village this week.
The article below is adapted from that essay.
The above has been adapted from an essay available here.
By Monica Racic September 20, 2009 If you were as taken as I was with Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book "Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide," released this month (and adapted into an essay that ran in the Times), then you'll be just as interested in the documentary "Fatal Promises," directed by Kat Rohrer, which is showing at Cinema Village this week.
