Types of Essay

• Types of Essays


  • Critical Essay
  • Persuasive Essay
  • College Application Essay
  • Narrative Essay
  • Argumentative Essay
  • Descriptive Essay
• Critical Essay


  Presents an OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS of a certain text, like a book, a feature article, news item or the like. It can either agree or disagree with the work analyzed.
• Critical Essay


  • It is a kind of thinking in which you question, analyse, interpret, evaluate and make a judgement about what you read, hear, say, or write.
  • The main objective is NOT TO CONVINCE YOUR AUDIENCE but to create an informative analysis.
  • You have to come up with your interpretation and prove with facts or evidence from other sources of work.
  • It expects you to examine another person's work, critically analyze it, and present your own idea.
• Persuasive Essay


  To convince, or persuade, the reader that the opinion, or assertion, or claim, of the writer is correct or valid.
• Persuasive Essay


  • Requires the writer's ability TO CONVINCE HIS READERS and MAKE THEM ACCEPT THE ARGUMENTS of the essay as well as the conclusions.
• College Application Essay


  It is most often required of students who are applying for college education.
• College Application Essay

  gives admissions officers a different perspective on you beyond your academic achievements, test scores, and extracurricular. It's your chance to stand out from other applicants with similar academic profiles by telling a unique, personal, and specific story.
• Narrative Essay


  It is basically WRITING A STORY connected with personal experiences.
• Narrative Essay


  • The essay should include all the parts of a story, including an introduction, plot, characters, setting, climax, and conclusion.
• Argumentative Essay


  Uses evidence and facts to support the claim it's making apart from the writer's thoughts and opinions to make strong reasoning.
• Argumentative Essay


  • The leading tone is the position of PROVING that the presented point of view is the correct one and possesses more truthful arguments than any other opinion.
• Descriptive Essay


  Makes use of the AUTHOR'S DESCRIPTION OF A SITUATION OR AN EVENT, relative to how he perceives the subject in relation to his personal experiences, using his senses of taste, smell, sight, sound, and touch.
• Descriptive Essay


  • Focus on description — the details, colors, feelings, sights, and sounds
• Types of Essays


  • Critical Essay
  • Persuasive Essay
  • College Application Essay
  • Narrative Essay
  • Argumentative Essay
  • Descriptive Essay
  • Compare-and-Contrast Essay
  • Cause-and-Effect Essay
  • Expository Essay
  • Definition Essay
  • Reflective Essay
  • Response Essay
• Compare-and-Contrast Essay


  Focused on expounding the differences and similarities between two ideas, things, situations, etc.
• Cause-and-Effect Essay


  It expresses the logical relationship of a course of events
• Expository Essay


  A genre of essay that reveals, explains, and sets forth an argument concerning an idea in a clear and concise manner

  
• Expository Essay


  • Focused on expounding the topic
  • Provides reasons/evidence to deepen the reader's understanding of the topic
• Concrete terms


  Refer to objects or events that are available to the senses
• Abstract terms


  Refer to entities that have no physical or spatial constraints because they have no direct representation in the physical world
• Bravery


  The mindset one takes when facing a challenge that could be dangerous or difficult
• Reflective Essay


  Expresses the writer's attitude or feelings toward a subject
• The use of phrases like "I think" and "I feel" is encouraged in a response paper