Types of essays
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This document discusses different types of nonfiction essays. It explains that an essay is a brief work that discusses a focused topic and includes the writer's opinions and experiences. It notes that an essayist's style reflects their personality and that the tone or attitude is also important. It then lists different types of essays, including narrative essays that tell stories, descriptive essays that build impressions using sensory details, expository essays that provide information or explain processes, persuasive essays that try to convince readers, and reflective essays that express thoughts and feelings on personal experiences or ideas.
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Types of essays
- 2. An essay is a brief work of nonfiction that discusses a focused topic and often includes the writer’s personal experiences and opinions. An essayist’s style, or distinctive way of using language, often reflects his or her personality. The tone of the essay or the writer’s attitude toward the subject matter and the audience, is also key to understanding an essay.
- 3. Tells a story of actual events or the life experiences of an individual.
- 4. Builds an overall impression of a person, an object, or an experience by using images that appeal to the senses.
- 5. Provides information, discusses ideas, or explains a process. Cause and effect and compare and contrast essays are types of expository essays.
- 6. Attempts to convince the readers to take a course of action or adopt the writer’s viewpoint.
- 7. Expresses the writer’s thoughts and feelings in response to a personal experience or to an idea.