Argumentative Essay

There are many types of essays that at some point almost everyone has written. Some of the essays include a narrative, a descriptive, a persuasive, and expository. “Those are the four major types of essays” (Time for Writing), and they are also the ones I will be talking about in this essay. There are more like a cause and effect, a comparison, or also a research essay. It is a good thing to know the differences between essays, so one doesn’t write a persuasive when told to write a narrative. The first one I will be talking about is a narrative essay. There are two main types of narrative essays, one is nonfiction and the other is fiction. The main purpose of this essay in to entertain the reader, and also leave them with some sort of knowledge to take away from the story. A nonfiction narrative is usually about something that has happened to the author, whether it was good like winning the lottery or bad like losing their favorite watch. A fictional narrative is something that hasn’t happened. Usually these are written solely for the purpose of entertaining their readers. A fictional narrative could either be realistic, meaning that what happens in the story has a chance to happen in real life. I fiction narrative could also be entirely fiction, meaning it could have things happen that are impossible in real life. For example, the story may have a dog talking to its owner. Whatever the narrative is about or if it is nonfiction or fiction, a narrative is