Types of Essays

Is meant to present arguments in the favor of something. It has an additional fourth body paragraph that is meant to present opposite arguments.

• Argumentative Essay

• Analytical Essay

• Descriptive Essay

• Narrative Essay

A narration like a short story. It is, however, different from a short story in that it is written in an essay format.

• Narrative Essay

• Argumentative Essay

• Comparison and Contrast Essay

• Cause and Effect Essay

Makes readers understand the cause of things, and their effects on other things.

• Narrative Essay

• Analytical Essay

• Critical Essay

• Cause and Effect Essay

Makes either a comparison, a contrast, or both between two different or similar things.

• Critical essay

• Analytical essay

• Descriptive essay

• Comparison and Contrast essay

Describes something to make readers feel, smell, see, taste, or hear what is described

• Descriptive Essay

• Narrative Essay

• Analytical Essay

• Comparison and Contrast Essay

Analyzes something, such as in literature an analytical essay analyzes a piece of literature from different angles.

• Analytical Essay

• Cause and Effect Essay

• Critical Essay

• Descriptive Essay

Written on literary pieces to evaluate them on the basis of their merits or demerits

• Descriptive Essay

• Cause and Effect Essay

• Analytical Essay

• Critical Essay