What are the types of Essay?

 What is the Essay? 

There are several definitions of the Essay, including:

• The Essay is a prose art in which the author shows a particular issue or idea in a coherent way that shows the author's idea and conveys it to the reader and the listener in a fun and moving way.
• Essay  is an author's part that treats a specific topic in terms of the author's influence.
• The Essay is a journalist's tool that expresses the newspaper's policy and the opinions of some of its writers on current events.

 What are the themes of the Essay? 

• Intellectual
• Realistic
• Personal

 What are the main? 

Does the writer want to tell his or her personal experience, explain a problem, or want to convince others of a particular perspective?

1. Descriptive Essays: The Descriptive Essays can be defined as one that integrates images with words, Descriptive Essays usually use words similar to the following: describes, explains, presents, draws, tracks, in which the author of a Descriptive Essays may describe a particular person, place, or memory of particular importance, and the author of the Descriptive Essays provides information about the topic without commenting on it, and the Descriptive Essays seeks to convey a deeper meaning through description and use of colored words and sensory details that gives the suspense of the Descriptive Essays, and the Descriptive Essays are characterized by its ability to attract the reader's emotions.
2. Persuasive Essays: Can be defined as “Persuasive Essays in their presentation of facts, and the purpose of Persuasive Essays is to convince the reader to accept the point of view of the Persuasive Essays author, and the author of Persuasive Essays must use facts and logic in the Persuasive Essays, in addition to examples, and opinion Experts, proper inference as the author of the Persuasive Essays must make all aspects of the argument, and be able to communicate the idea clearly and without equivocation within the Persuasive Essays”.
3. Narrative Essays: An Narrative Essays can be defined as a narrative of a real experience, and an Narrative Essays challenges readers to think and express themselves , Narrative Essays writers should also try to engage reader, and they can do so by turning the story to be interesting and exciting as possible, the Narrative Essays also uses the conscience-based narrative approach to provide readers a sense of being part of the story. Narrative Essays can tend to be serious or humorous, and the end in Narrative Essays can be confusing, a boost to morale or even a challenge to the reader. Many literary magazines use Narrative Essays and publish Narrative Essays.
4. Expository Essays: Expository Essays are “a media part of writing that provides a balanced analysis of a topic. In Expository Essays, the author of Expository Essays explains or identifies a topic within the Expository Essays, using facts, statistics, and examples”. Expository Essays include a wide range of variations with articles, such as comparison and contradiction, and cause-effect Essay. Because Expository Essays are based on facts rather than on personal feelings, the author of Expository Essays does not reveal their emotions.​​

 Types of articles based on method 

• editorial Essay: Is the main Essay of the newspaper and has its own wording is to explain and interpret and rely on logical arguments at times and emotional at another time to reach one goal is to convince the reader.
• Vertical Essay: Is a limited space of the newspaper no more than a column put by the newspaper at the disposal of one of its senior writers expresses what he sees opinions, thoughts, thoughts and personal impressions about events and issues, and it is mostly has a fixed place that does not change and published under a fixed title, and may be every day, or maybe every week  .
• Analytical Essay: The analytical Essay is one of the most prominent and influential art of the newspaper, and is based on a deep analysis of events and issues of public concern. The analytical article is based on dealing with facts and events in detail and linking them to other events and then inferring from them opinions and trends, and is usually published weekly where the author has the opportunity to engage in various areas of human activity such as politics, economy, culture, thought and literature.
• We can therefore differentiate between the analytical and the editorial Essay through: space, place, writer, since the analytical Essay has nothing to do with the policy of the newspaper as in the editorial Essay, and therefore there is more space for the analytical Essay writer to deal with topics and issues without caution or fear, The editorials  Essays reflect the direction of the newspaper.
• Critical Essay.
• Self-Essay: Is also called self-Essay  the term personal statement because it reflects the personality of the writer, and is one of the most common types of Essays, The Essay needs special writing skills.
• The objective Essay: This type of Essay occupies an important area, where the author in this Essay must state the argument clearly, objectively, and do not accept personal views, or opinions in this type of Essays , and cannot be classified as an objective Essay unless it is written fairly and supported by references and evidence The proof.

Other, There are many other including: Scientific, cause and effect, definition, historical, analytical, academic, processing, and other . Without a doubt, there are many . However, despite the many , each type of follow the same rules showed earlier.

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