About Essays

Essay writing is a requirement in order to have academic success. There are four main types of essay and each type of essay is named according to what the writer’s goal is. These four major types of essay are narrative essay, descriptive essay, expository essay, and persuasive essay. In a narrative essay, the writer or author narrates his or her story based on his or her experiences in real life. It has a plot, characters, setting, and etc. This type of essay usually uses the first person point of view. The descriptive essay is similar and alike to the narrative essay. In this type of essay, the writer describes any kinds of topic such as a person, a thing, or a place. The writer or author uses descriptive, colorful, or flowery words that are mostly sensory. The expository essay exposes ideas and analysis of a topic. It is mainly informative and it is usually written by the use of stating facts, statistics, comparing and contrasting, defining, giving examples, and telling the causes and effects. An expository essay should have a thesis statement. This is the most common essay which uses the five paragraph format that is composed with an introductory paragraph, three body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph. Writers or authors do not use the first person point of view in writing an expository essay. In a persuasive essay, the writer or author also presents and states facts and gives expert reasoning in order to convince the readers to agree on the writer’s point. This type of essay is also known as the argumentative essay in which the writer or author must have a stand on a certain topic. Just like an expository essay, a persuasive essay should also have a thesis statement and may also use the five paragraph format.