Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Types of Essays
Types of Essays
Measurement
Development
Professionalism
Measurement
Implying that it is to:
Assess your knowledge and understanding?
Grade your achievements?
Judge your writing skills?
Measure you against your peers?
Development
Far more important is that you are given the
opportunity:
to explore what you think
to improve how you think
to practice communicating your thoughts
Development
Writing is a tool which can allow us to:
Organize our thoughts clearly
give ourselves room to examine
what we think
why we think it
whether we should continue to think it
Professionalism
Sustained, coherent and complex thinking
cannot be done silently.
Descriptive
Contrast/compare
Argumentative
The descriptive
essay
In describe essays, you are
merely asked to describe,
something, be it an event, object,
graph or table.
Describing a process
Describing and explaining
Plan – Object or place
Introduction
Questions are major aspects of the subject.
often introduced
by: description of aspect A
• Describe ....
• Narrate... description of aspect B
• Tell....
etc.
Conclusion
Plan – Sequence of Events
Introduction
Questions are
often introduced First situation
by:
• Give an then A happened
• Explain/What
Step Two
is the leads to
connection
between.... Step Three
• Describe the
procedures by Conclusion
Summary of process
which...
Plan – Describing and explaining
Questions often introduced by:
• Explain the causes/reasons....
• Account for....
• Analyse the causes....
• Comment on (the reasons for)....
• Show that....
• Show why...
• Examine the effect of....
• Suggest reasons for....
• Why did...?
• What are the implications of...?
• Discuss the causes of....
• Discuss the reasons for....
Plan – Describing and explaining
Introduction to causes of A
Effects
Effects 2
Conclusion
etc.
Conclusion
Compare and contrast
essays
Contrast or distinguish between
questions usually present you with
two or more terms, instruments,
concepts or procedures that are
closely connected, and sometimes
confused. The purpose of the essay is
to explain the differences between
them.
2. Compare and contrast
essays
Questions are
often introduced
by:
• Compare ....
• What features do ...
and ... have in
common?
• What are the
similarities
between....
• How are ... and ...
similar?
Argumentative essays
The purpose of an
argumentative essay
is to persuade the reader to
follow your point of view. You do
this by supporting your point with
facts or relevant ideas.
The argument essay
Consider whether....
The
Reasons against the argument.
Dispose briefly of the main objections to your case.
persuasive
Reasons for your argument
essay the arguments to support your own view,
with evidence and examples.
Plan –
Aspect 1 - true
The to what
Aspect 1 - false
extent essay
Aspect 2 - true
etc
Conclusion
a ‘subtraction’ sum
Which brings us on to
….how to write