We recently learnt about Expository Essays and these are the different types of essay. Samples of expository essays include:
Analogy Essay
An analogy compares two unlike things to illustrate common elements of both, it is a figure of language that expresses a set of like relationships among two sets of terms. An analogy essay is an extended analogy, uses an analogy to explain something more clearly by showing comparisons. Analogy essays can be used to discuss nearly anything, as long as the writer can find a comparison that fits.
Causal analysis Essay
Causal essay describes the reasons and the results of a particular action. Cause-and-effect writing gives reasons and explanations for events, conditions, or behavior. It answers the need most of us have to understand the world around us. It can be used in science papers on chemistry or physics as it describes the cause and effect of doing something to the experiment. There are 3 subdivisions of this essay: multiple causes for one effect, one cause for multiple effects or a domino chain. The first describes the causes of one effect; the second describes the effects of one problem; and the last is a chain of events that are caused due to the previous event.
Classification Essay
In a classification essay, we organize things into categories and provide examples under each category. The writer most of the time classifies the factors according to factors of each category.
Compare and Contrast Essay
Two writing strategies are usually found together. To compare is to examine to show similarities. To contrast is to set into opposition in order to show differences. But in ordinary usage a comparison may include not only similarities but also differences. In comparing and contrasting, a writer is trying to list similarities or differences and also to reveal something clearly, by its similarities to something we might not think it is related to, or by its differences from something we might think it does relate to.
Definition Essay
The writer usually explains a word, something, a concept, or a phenomenon. He does this to let you understand it more clearly and have a deeper understanding to it.
Processing Essay
It explains step by step how something is done or how to do something. Used to give instructions.
Example Essay
The example essay is an essay that explains something with facts, as opposed to opinion.
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