Four Types Of 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 …show more content…
The authors goal of this type of essay is to inform the reader about a certain topic. The reader by the end of the paper should be more informed and possibly have picked a side. “Exposition is explanatory communication, whether in speech or writing. So an expository essay is an organized piece of prose which explains a specific topic or set of ideas to a defined audience. Expository essays include those written for exams or for standardized tests like the SAT. They may also be assignments composed outside of class” (11trees). If an expository essay shows any hint of leaning on one side of the argument it then becomes a persuasive