 Essays in the main tradition tend to have a definable perspective, even on occasion a personal one, and they speak in an idiom that reaches a broad audience.They tend to emphasize the occasion for foregrounding a question or issue as important, and they tend to demonstrate the argument in the form of the essay itself.He linked the contemporary editorial project embodied in "WLT" with a time-honored literary tradition, illustrated by the work of Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon, emphasizing the etymology of the word "essay," which evokes experimentation, trial and error, and the exploration of a mind faced with the current adventures of world culture.