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Example Essay
Example essay or illustration essay
Your main purpose in an example essay / illustration essay is to support your point of view on a particular subject solely by giving examples.
The function of an example essay is to enhance a generalization (e.g., students who are passive don’t learn) by illustrating with specific examples (e.g., several examples of passive students who failed to learn). In an example or illustration essay, the writer should:
- Colors examples with rich sensory detail and vivid verbs.
- Organizes examples based on their impact, with the strongest usually saved for last.
- Reveals in the conclusion the full thesis, which moves beyond the generalization (e.g., passive students endanger their future).
Informal essay
The informal essay – is the most interesting and easy essay type. On the one hand it could be persuasive, descriptive, compare and contrast or any other kind of essay, but in the same time it is less formal. Students are not obliged to follow some exact structure as in the essays mentioned above. Continue Reading
Exploratory Essay
The exploratory essay encourages you to do-to explore the world, to test limits, to juggle concepts, to push language to its creative limits.
The exploratory essay should contrast with argumentative, persuasive, and informative essays that are concerned with upholding the truth of a proposition or demonstrating the validity of a thesis. In conventional academic writing, evidence is produced in support of a thesis.
Counterarguments are advanced to dispose of alternative explanations. But the exploratory essay is concerned not with demonstration, but with inquiry. It features a relatively “open” form, ambiguity, complexity, and nonlinear reasoning. The exploratory essay holds several possibilities in suspension simultaneously, inviting the inquisitive mind to play among them.
Put a slightly different way, exploratory writing tries to engage your whole self in each essay you write: all the information, all the observations, and all of the insights you have accumulated since the doctor first got your attention with a slap on your bottom, Such discovery, connection, and involvement are some of the major goals of education.
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Definition essay
One good way of beginning a definition essay is to say what the word does not mean to you, or to say what the word means to other people. Then devote the rest of the essay to the contrast between that meaning and your own personal view. It is difficult enough, but the task of the definition essay is a much greater thing. You must not only define a subject of your own choosing, but must do so in writing that engages your reader’s interest.
A well-built definition essay breaks a subject into parts that can be clearly understood.
One way to write a definition essay is to begin with a provocative statement about the term. Then in the body of your essay, develop your definition more thoroughly. The purpose of the definition essay is to explain a term or concept.
Be sure you know what you are going to define and how you will approach your definition. You should then focus on a specific audience and purpose as you approach the writing alignment.
Usually a definition essay is constructed so that it will have the effect of stimulating thought and providing a fresh approach to a topic. This type of essay is always written for a specific purpose.
Develop your definition with examples. Nearly every definition can be improved by adding examples. Well-chosen examples show your definition in action. Definition can be objective – strictly factual, as in a dictionary definition-or subjective-combined with personal opinion.
Deductive essay
Deductive essay is a type of essay when it is based on a deductive outline, it means that thought moves from the whole to the parts. You are in fact telling your readers what the essay is all about when you present the central idea (thesis); they do not expect surprises, but rather a fuller explanation and discussion. Such an arrangement achieves the purpose of the deductive essay—to present and offer proof of the main idea.
In addition to the difference in reader expectation involved in reverse thought arrangements, another major difference between deductive and inductive essays is their focus. It might be said that a deductive essay is product while an inductive is process. The deductive essay begins where the inductive ends: it emphasizes the results and implications of a thought, achieving a favorable response primarily with the details offered to explain and justify the thought. On the other hand, the inductive recreates the thought process itself by demonstrating how the conclusion is evolved from the details. And in moving from details to a conclusion, the writer purposely tries to involve the reader in every stage of reasoning in order to convince him of the validity of the question’s answer or the problem’s solution.
Descriptive Essay
An essay of description relies on imagery to be successful. Your readers are dependent on your words alone in order to see, hear, smell, taste, or feel your subject. For example:
The unexpected spring storm sent sharp pellets of rain onto my face, forcing me to swallow the droplets as I panicked and screamed for help.
In this sentence, the reader can see, feel, and taste the rain, can hear the scream, and can therefore get a good picture of the narrator’s predicament.
In a short story or novel, description of a setting helps readers feel closer to the characters or the plot because they can see and appreciate the characters’ environment. In a nonfiction work, description helps readers know how a finished product should look (or feel, taste, smell, or sound).
Works of description rely on details, so be generous with them.
Cause and Effect Essay
In a cause and effect essay, you examine the relationships between how certain events bring about or lead to other events. For instance, if you’re looking at the causes of U.S. involvement in World War II, you’d write about the immediate cause (the bombing of Pearl Harbor) as well as causes that had been building up for some time (growing hostilities between the United States and Germany and the United States and Japan, increasing bonds between the United States and the Allies, and so on).
Be sure that there is actually a relationship between your suggested cause and effect. For instance, suppose you buy a new car and then two days later the dealership lowers the price on the model you bought. The dealership’s sale had nothing to do with your previous purchase of the car, so there was no cause and effect relationship.
The following transition words and phrases can come in handy when writing a cause and effect essay: accordingly, as a consequence, as a result, because, for this purpose, consequently, for that reason, hence, in order that, so, so that, then, therefore, thereupon, to do this, thus, with this in mind, to this end, and with this objective.
Compare and Contrast essay
Compare and contrast essay: uses paragraphs that compare and contrast to explain how an event or idea is like or not like a comparable event or idea.
In a comparison and contrast essay, you record the similarities and the differences of people, places, events, and so on. Be sure to omit any statements of the obvious (e.g., Mercury and Mars are both planets that revolve around the sun).
Compare and contrast two people or places or works, makes an interesting and informative piece only if you look beyond the obvious and describe or analyze the similarities and differences that readers may not have been aware or plan.
If an assignment calls only for comparison, make sure that you don’t contrast-or vice versa. If the assignment calls for both, give each approximately the same amount of space.
The following transition words and phrases are useful for showing contrast after all, alternatively, although, and yet, at the same time, but, conversely, despite, however, even so, even though, for all that, in contrast, in spite of instead, nevertheless, nonetheless, nor. Not withstanding, on the contrary, on the other hand, otherwise, regardless, still, though, and yet.
Transition words and phrases of similarity include again, also, and, as well as, besides, by the same token, for example, furthermore, in a like manner, in a similar way, in the same way, like, likewise, moreover, once more, similarly, and so.
Critical Analysis
In a critical analysis, you examine and assess a work from a number of points of view. Requirements often vary by instructor or company, but you should always include the following.
- Enough background information to familiarize your reader with the piece you’re analyzing (including the name of the author or artist) Continue Reading
The comparison contrast essay
The comparison essay reveals similarities, and the contrast essay shows differences, but the word comparison is often used to describe essays that discuss both similarities and differences.
Whenever a writer lines up two things for discussion, he will almost always be comparing and contrasting them. Never forget however, that for this essay type to be really meaningful, all the subjects must be members of the same group. A writer might profitably compare and contrast a vocational major with an academic major because both are courses of study. Another writer might effectively compare and contrast a vocational course with an industrial training program because both lead to a job. However, it is not likely that any writer could meaningfully compare and contrast an academic major with an industrial training program. When you employ the comparison/contrast mode of writing, be sure the subjects are plainly related.
There are two ways the details in a comparison paragraph may be arranged: the point-by-point pattern or the block pattern. We will examine the block pattern first because it really is quite simple. To begin, you describe the pertinent points of the first subject: then you describe the pertinent points of the other. You should always try to conclude the essay with a brief statement that brings the two into focus and restates your reason for comparing them. The block pattern is appropriate to use and easy to organize when the subjects are brief and not too complicated. The point-by-point method helps to keep the reader’s attention when the material becomes detailed or full of refinements or exceptions.














