7 Powerful Types of Essays You Need to Know for Success

types of essay

Essay and it’s some types of essay

Essay

It is being defined by many websites and scholars as an attempt or giving a try to explain something to the readers. Here in essay writing, we select a topic of our own subject matter, collect the evidence, and write it down for our readers in order to make them aware of a particular issue.

Why Essay

Usually, an essay is written to solve a problem, share experiences, or clarify ideas. You can also improve your writing skills, and you can overcome the solution of a problem through your essay.

Main Types of Essays

Descriptive Essay

As the name indicates, description means a complete, clear, focused detail of something to be given to your reader, which may be of place or an object. Sometimes the writer writes in such a way that the reader can have an image in his mind of that place or object, or the reader uses their five senses to understand it, or it can make the reader feel as though something is happening in front of him.

The topics of that essay can be best when the writer has his or her own experience so that he or she can give enough detail about that place, object or personal experience to communicate with the reader.

Examples of Descriptive Essays:

Based on giving examples, the Descriptive Essay is divided into parts

  • Personal Essay: – Writer’s own feelings and personal experiences. Have a resembles with Narrative Essay

Examples are: – Place you visited

                             Your Favorite Sport or Game

  • Formal Essay: – When writers write about something the way they are, the truth, the objectivity. Closer to an argumentative essay

Examples are: – The geography or the culture or the climate of a particular place

Narrative Essay

As the name indicates, Narration means telling a story from the writer’s perspective. Usually, the Narrative essay is more subjective. Narrative essay most of the time relies on personal experiences. Here you can use your imagination. You can interestingly write real life events for the readers or you can also make a fictional character and make up a story.

A narrative essay is more like a story. It usually has five elements.

  • Plot
  • Setting
  • Character
  • Conflict
  • Theme

Usually have a common structure

  • Introduction
  • Body
  • Conclusion

Example of Narrative Essay

Embarrassing moment of my school life

Experience of friendship to love

The most painful moments of your life

Persuasive Essay

As the name indicates, to persuade someone. Here you choose your position and you convince the reader to go with you. You give him or her strong proof and evidence that she has to follow you having no other choice. Here you will prove to yourself why you are correct and the opposing arguments are wrong. You will need a deep knowledge and a lot of research for that.

Structure of Persuasive Essay

     Introduction: – background knowledge, thesis statement

    Body: – contains 3-5 paragraphs

                   Argument 1 with support

                 Arguments 2nd with support

               Opposing or antithesis with support

Note: – you can sum up your argument and write as many as you can.

Conclusion: – summarize recommendations.

How to write a Persuasive Essay?

Here are the steps to be followed:-

  • Choose a topic
  • Choose your side
  • Try to know the audience and understand them
  • Collection of strong evidence
  • Make a structure
  • Create a rough draft
  • Start it
  • Proofread
  • Edit
  •  

Examples: – Education, Social media, Abortion

Expository Essay

That type of Essay needs an investigation, a more detailed information about a topic. Here you will be trying to give all the information needed to the reader with proper detail and proof. It can be defined as:-

For the types of essays that need detailed information about a topic, you will have to investigate more deeply to convince your reader and provide the reader with all the specific details and make them satisfied.

It is closer to an Argumentative Essay but it is different. The main difference between them is that in an Argumentative Essay, you will give Arguments and have to prove a certain point but here you will just define, give information, and explore your topic.

Types of Expository Essays:-

The main types of expository essays are which the most important ones are discussed below are

  • Cause and Effect Essay
  • Compare and Contrast Essay
  • Process Essay
  • Problem and Solution Essay
  • Classification Essay
  • Definition Essay

Structure of Expository Essay:-

It has a typical essay structure

Introduction: – background, having a thesis statement

Body: – supporting detail

Conclusion:- summarize

How to write an Expository Essay?

Here are the steps that need to be followed:-

  • Choose a topic
  • Make an outline
  • Think of proper introduction
  • Suggest your Body Paragraphs
  • Make a convincing Conclusion
  • Write
  • Review and revise
  • Proof read
  • Edit

 Examples

               Strictness of parents, indulging into drugs, music results on teenager.

Cause and Effect Essay

This type of essay is based on basically two questions.

Why?

And number 2nd, what are the results?

Here we usually moves around our topic that why that why something has happened means what was the reason and what are the results (consequences) coming out if this.

A simple example is that for example if an accident happens, why happened? Was the driver sleeping or was the traffic lights were out of order? Similarly the results, for example with what the car is bump etc.

How to write Cause and Effect Essay?

There are five to six basic steps involved here:-

  • Choose your topic
  • Brainstorm means think broadly to pick the cause and effect
  • Conduct a research
  • Make a strong reasons and results
  • Make an outline
  • Start it

Structure of Cause and Effect

Introduction: – here the main line will be having strong thesis statement of cause, effect or both

Body: – may be of 3-6 paragraph depending upon your topic

   Paragraph 1 for example

          Main or Topic sentence which will be clearing cause and effect

          Cause 2/ effect 2 with examples

Conclusions: – Reminding the main points with concluding sentence.

Examples of Cause and Effect Essay:-

      Smoking, Causes of Unemployment, Pollution

Compare and Contrast

    As from name indicates that here in this Essay, we try to compare one thing or one place with another to find out how much similar or how much different they are. The object can be different but they must of the same ballpark to show the similarities between them. For example you cannot compare the brand of shoes for example Bata with the brand of clothes for example Maria B. We will compare the two same brands whether of shoes or clothes.

How to write a Compare and Contrast Essay?

Following these steps, one can get to the perfect essay

  • Choose Subject
  • Find or brainstorm similarities
  • Find differences
  • Find an argument
  • Organize it
  • Make a outline
  • Watch for supporting material
  • Watch out for mistakes and edit it.

Structure:-

Introduction:-

General Information about topic

Thesis statement

Body:-

The different ideas explained here, compare them, contrast them, restate that

Conclusion:-

Restate the main idea

Examples: – Comparing two brands.

Argumentative Essay

The detail description of this type of essay are given at another blog with complete detail.

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