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Essay writing prompts: types of writing

Efficient essay writing is today a need of the educational institutes. Essays are assigned to the students from primary grades and they are assigned till a student is in highest grades. If a student is able to prompt the essay writing in any test or college and school essay he will clearly answer the question.

Types of essay writing:

The student mostly bemused to prompt the essay writing because they are not very confident about the type of the essay writing required in the situation in which he or she is. The types of the essay writing depend on the writer imagination or willpower on which he is going to write. The types of essays are as follows. The students do not need to perplex more about essay writing.

Basically the essay writing is of four types:

  1. Storyline type of the essay writing
  2. Expressive type of the essay writing
  3. Illustrative type of the essay writing
  4. Convincing type of the essay writing

Storyline type of the essay writing:

This is the type of the essay writing in which the writer of the essay tells his own story and personal experience. All information that is written in the essay is about the person who is writing it and the subject used is the first person. This thing makes the reader to read the essay more carefully and read as if the essay is written for the reader. Such type of essays also needed to write the results and thesis statement.

Expressive type of the essay writing:

This is the type of essay writing uses more details of the story. Now the story is not told by the writer rather he has to show or express the whole situation by using beautiful words. This type of essay appeals the reader in a different and more effective way. The reader psychologically attaches to such type of essays.

Illustrative type of the essay writing:

This is the type of the essay writing in which the writer does not tell his own story. He is not allowed to reveal the personal experiences rather it is based on the facts and authorized information. Such type of essays tables, graphs and figures to prove the facts.

Convincing type of the essay writing:

In this type of essays, the writer has to prove his point to convince the reader by using different ways, statistics and techniques. The writer should explain very clearly to convince the reader.

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