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• Definition Essay:

  • States and describes the precise meaning of a word, concept, term, or object
  • Provides a clear specific explanation, often outlining essential characteristics
• Comparison and Contrast Essay:

  • Comparison: tells, enumerates, and examines similarities, what they have in common
  • Contrast: tells the differences of two or more things and how they are NOT alike, or what they have in contrary
  • Different methods/structures in writing a comparison and contrast essay:

  1. Basis of comparison - requires having a specific basis, a common point of comparison or contrast. Subj. 1 and 2 and discuss

  2. Alternating Method - allows you to take turns. Subj 1, subj 2..

  3. Block Method - involves developing ideas in chunks. Subj 1, 1, 1, Subj 2, 2

  4. Combination Method - refers to the combination of alternating and block method in writing
• Exemplification Essay:

  • Act of giving an example of something
  • Aims to support a general statement by narrowing details or giving examples that relate to the readers and help them understand the main point
• Classification Essay:

  • The act or process of classifying something according to qualities or characteristics
• Objective description:

  • Unbiased, not colored by personal feelings, equivalent to facts, informative and verifiable
  • Appeals to the intellect, e.g., science books
• Subjective description:

  • May be used blended with exposition or narration as in creative writing
  • Stimulates the imagination, appeals to the emotions, and gives pleasure
• Spatial Order:

  • Organization of items according to their physical position or relationship
  • Explains or describes the object around you
• Elements of Descriptive Writing:

  1. Topic Sentence - must be concise and clear focusing on the topic of the text

  2. Supporting sentences - serve as the "stuffing" of the whole paragraph

  3. Paragraph unity - suggests that a paragraph must discuss a single idea focusing on the main topic
• Introduction:

  • Serves to engage the reader and set the stage for the story that follows
  • Contains key elements such as hook/attention-grabber, background/context, thesis statement, introduction of characters, setting, foreshadowing (optional), and transition to the story + in medias res climax first
  • Contains transition sentences that connect the events and guide the reader to follow the story
• Conclusion:

  • Where you must write a brief statement that declares the resolution of the events in the story
  • Includes moral, prediction, revelation
• Descriptive Writing:

  • Serves to describe the qualities or characteristics of something or someone
  • Appeals to the reader's senses: Visual, Tactual, Auditory, Olfactory, Gustatory, Kinesthetic, Thermal
• Narration:

  • Focuses on telling either a fictional story or a real-life story following a plot structure: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement