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 social media posts
opinion articles
Post (also see tweet) - Content essays
shared on social media Opinion pieces may take
An essay is, generally, a piece of
through a user's profile. It can the form of an editorial,
writing that gives the author's
be as simple as a blurb of text, usually written by the
own argument, but the definition
but can also include images, senior editorial staff or
is vague, overlapping with those of
videos, and links to other publisher of the
a letter, a paper, an article, a 
content. Other users of the publication, in which case
pamphlet, and a short story.
social network can like, the opinion piece is
Essays have been sub-classified as
comment, and share the post. usually unsigned and may
formal and informal: formal essays
be supposed to reflect
are characterized by "serious
the opinion of the
purpose, dignity, logical
periodical. In major
organization, length," whereas the
newspapers, such as the 
informal essay is characterized by
New York Times[1] and
"the personal element (self-
the Boston Globe,[2]
revelation, individual tastes and
 editorials are classified
experiences, confidential manner),
under the heading
humor, graceful style, rambling
"opinion."
structure, unconventionality or
novelty of theme," etc.[

 public letters
An open letter is a letter that
is intended to be read by a
wide audience, or a letter
intended for an individual, but
that is nonetheless widely
distributed intentionally.
 emails
Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a
method of exchanging messages ("mail")
between people using electronic devices.
Email was thus conceived as the  usually relate to a single political issue
electronic (digital) version of, or
counterpart to, mail, at a time when
"mail" meant only physical mail (hence e-
 + mail). Email later became a ubiquitous
(very widely used) communication
medium, to the point that in current use,
an email address is often treated as a
basic and necessary part of many
processes in business, commerce,
government, education, entertainment,
and other spheres of daily life in most
countries. Email is the medium, and each
message sent therewith is called an
email (mass/count distinction).
Petition
A petition is a formal request for action
written to a governmental authority or
individual public office holder. Petitions
and originate from one or multiple
concerned members of the public. These
members seek to gain signatures from
others to endorse their position on the
issue at hand. It is a means for the
general public to participate politically by
seeking to influence the government of
the day by mobilizing mass democratic
support for a particular policy.
 thesis
reports term papers
A report is a A term paper is a research A thesis (PL: theses), or dissertation[note 1]
specific form of  paper written by students  (abbreviated diss.),[2] is a document
writing that is  over an academic term, submitted in support of candidature for an 
organised around accounting for a large part of academic degree or professional
concisely a grade. Merriam-Webster qualification presenting the author's
identifying and  defines it as "a major written research and findings.[3] In some contexts,
examining issues, assignment in a school or the word "thesis" or a cognate is used for
events, or findings college course representative part of a bachelor's or master's course,
that have of a student's achievement while "dissertation" is normally applied to
happened in a during a term".[1] Term a doctorate. This is the typical
physical sense, papers are generally arrangement in American English. In other
such as events intended to describe an contexts, such as within most institutions
that have occurred event, a concept, or argue a of the United Kingdom and 
within an point. It is a written original Republic of Ireland, the reverse is true.[4]
organisation, or work discussing a topic in  The term graduate thesis is sometimes
findings from a detail, usually several typed used to refer to both master's theses and
research pages in length, and is often doctoral dissertations.
investigation due at the end of a semester.
 popular science articles
 academic articles

Popular science (also called pop-science or popsci)

An academic journal or scholarly journal is a  is an interpretation of science intended for a
periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a general audience. While science journalism focuses
particular academic discipline is published. Academic on recent scientific developments, popular science
journals serve as permanent and transparent forums is more broad-ranging. It may be written by
for the presentation, scrutiny, and discussion of  professional science journalists or by scientists
research. They nearly-universally require peer-review themselves.
 or other scrutiny from contemporaries competent and
established in their respective fields.[1][2] Content
typically takes the form of articles presenting 
original research, review articles, or book reviews. The
purpose of an academic journal, according to 
Henry Oldenburg (the first editor of 
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society), is to
give researchers a venue to "impart their knowledge to
one another, and contribute what they can to the
Grand design of improving natural knowledge, and
perfecting all Philosophical Arts, and Sciences."