Types of Essay

TYPES OF ESSAY
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WHAT
ESSAYS are…?
✔ Essays are long-form writing
assignments that persuade or inform
a reader about a particular topic.
✔ It's important to know which type of essay

to use to best deliver your message to
readers.
✔ When you choose the type of essay most
relevant to your topic, you can tailor your
essay to your readers and be more
Essay writing skill is
important…?
✔ Effective written communication is a necessary skill for
many jobs
✔ Professionals can convey a message by explaining or
describing their ideas.
✔ One way to do this is with an essay writing to

communicate
your ideas more clearly.
TYPES OF ESSAY
Narrative essays
Descriptive Essays
Expository Essays
Process Essays
Compare & Contrast Essays
Argumentative Essays
Persuasive Essays
Cause & effect Essays
Critical Essays
Narrative Essays
Narrative essays tell a story and often are the most personal type of essay you may
write.
They allow you to exercise creativity and imagination, and you can base them on a
particular prompt, such as the first time you drove a car by yourself, or a more open-
ended prompt, like a time you overcame a fear.
You can use literary techniques in narrative essays to create an essay that reads like
fiction.
To do this, consider including metaphors, analogies, alliteration, imagery and dialogue.

Descriptive Essays
 Descriptive essays provide a detailed description of
your subject.
 This may be a person, place, thing or event.
Descriptive essays, like narrative essays, allow for
a more creative approach to writing.
 Descriptive essays often focus only on the subject.
Descriptive Essays
 When writing a descriptive essay, consider
including vivid imagery and incorporate actions,
thoughts, sensory details and emotions to immerse
the reader instead of simply explaining the
situation or events.
 You can do this by using strong action verbs and
unique, descriptive adjectives. This can make your
writing more engaging and help the reader feel
more involved and connected to your essay and its
characters.
Expository Essays
 Expository essays explain a topic neutrally
 Writers use expository essays to demonstrate their
knowledge or expertise in a certain area.
 Expository essays can take different formats, but
they typically include:
 # An introduction with a thesis statement
explaining
 exactly what the essay will discuss
 # The body that details the facts of the subject,
often citing
 sources
 # A conclusion that summarizes the main
points
Process Essays
 Process essays are another type of exposition essay
that describes how to do something or how something
works.
 You can write a process essay in chronological order to
maintain organization and clarity. Process essays usually
contain the following elements:
 # Introduction: Introduce the process you will describe.
 # Body: These paragraphs describe each step in chronological
order.
 Consider using transition words that signal where you are
in the process.
 # Conclusion: Finish your essay with a conclusion that
summarizes the
Compare & Contrast Essays
 Compare and contrast essays discuss two subjects and
detail the
similarities and differences between them.
 These essays include an introduction, at least one

paragraph to explain the subjects' similarities, at least
one paragraph to discuss differences and a conclusion.
 Compare and contrast essays are common in academic

settings. An example of a compare and contrast essay is
one describing the similarities and differences between
 Argumentative essays try to convince the reader to take
a certain side based on the information the writer
presents.
 Argumentative essays rely on facts. For instance, an
argumentative essay may discuss why companies should
offer wellness packages as part of their benefits plan.
 The essay can incorporate research about how regular
exercise increases productivity and how people who eat
well and work out take fewer sick days.
 Argumentative essays avoid first- or second-person
statements. Rather, they support one side of an argument
and may argue against other sides using objective
information.
 You can use phrases like "Research suggests" or

"According to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention" …..to present the facts that support your
argument.
Persuasive Essays
 Persuasive essays aim to persuade readers to have an
opinion or take a side using facts and emotional appeals.
 To support an argument or cause, persuasive essays can

include moral and emotional reasoning to connect to the
reader.
Persuasive Essays
 Persuasive essays aim to persuade readers to have an
opinion or take a side using facts and emotional appeals.
 To support an argument or cause, persuasive essays can

include moral and emotional reasoning to connect to the
reader.
Cause & Effect Essays
 Cause and effect essays detail why certain events or
situations led to other events.
 Writers create a clear connection between the two sets

of events or circumstances and explain what features of
the initiating event created the subsequent incidents.
Cause & Effect Essays
 Cause and effect essays are types of expository essays,
so they state facts and avoid subjective opinions.
 A cause and effect essay may examine how Charles

Darwin's scientific discoveries led to the origin of new
theories of social science, for instance.
Critical Essays
 Critical essays provide an in-depth analysis of a topic. They can
critique paintings, books, movies, plays or restaurants.
 Critical essays use facts from the subject to justify an opinion.
 For instance, in a movie review, a writer could note a movie

uses boring dialogue. They then could support that observation
by citing specific lines from the film.
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TYPES OF ESSAY

✔ It's important to know which type of essay

✔ One way to do this is with an essay writing to

To do this, consider including metaphors, analogies, alliteration, imagery and dialogue.

 These essays include an introduction, at least one

 Compare and contrast essays are common in academic

 You can use phrases like "Research suggests" or

 To support an argument or cause, persuasive essays can

 To support an argument or cause, persuasive essays can

 Writers create a clear connection between the two sets

 A cause and effect essay may examine how Charles

 For instance, in a movie review, a writer could note a movie

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