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Friday, December 16, 2011

KINDS OF ESSAYS


It is not at all important how essay are classified. Usually there are five types of essays. These are as under:

NARRATIVE ESSAYS:
A narrative essay is concerned mainly with the narration of some events. It covers history, biography, a legend or story or any current event.

DESCRIPTIVE ESSAYS:
A descriptive essay consists of description of some natural object, animate or inanimate, some country, place or object of interest – as a library, a fort, a ship etc.

REFLECTIVE ESSAYS: 
A reflective essay deals with the topics of abstract thing which can be felt like beauty, love, truthfulness, social or political topics, and philosophical or religious subjects.

EXPOSITORY ESSAYS:
In such a type of essay, the writer should substantiate his arguments by suitable references, parallel quotation, examples and quotation etc.

IMAGINATIVE ESSAY:  
These deal with topics which are the result of thinking of the writer’s mind. It includes travel accounts where imaginative of the author has a part to play.

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