There are many types of essays which every student will confront at some stage in their academic career but the four most common types of essays are as follows: persuasive, analytical, expository and argumentative. The best way to write any one of these types of essays quickly and easily is to understand the structure or format and to follow the basic rules. Knowing the key theme or idea of each type of essay is the key to you being successful.
With the expository essay is a very personal piece of writing. You are giving your response to a theme or issue or an idea. Often that theme or idea can be expressed in a piece of literature, an event in world history or perhaps a debate in politics. The persuasive essay is just as the name implies, and is a piece of writing where you have to persuade the reader to your point of view.
The reader will probably be your teacher and they will have read this and other types of essays a thousand times before. So to be persuasive you will need to know your subject well and mount your argument even better. The more information you have about the topic, the quicker and easier it is for you to write the essay. Likewise, the analytical essay is where you make an analysis or an interpretation of something which is usually a book or an event.
And finally there is the argumentative essay which is where you have to argue in favour of a point of view. The idea is that you list the pros and cons of an issue before coming down with an argument to support what you believe is the truth. So the first step in writing easily and quickly a specific type of essay is to know exactly what is required. The definitions above our basic and you would do well to delve further into those definitions. But knowing exactly the structural format of the type of essay enables you to do the relevant research and planning for its writing.
Knowing what you have to find or discover to fulfill the requirements of the particular essay is the key to you writing it quickly and easily. Once you know that you have to form an analysis or build an argument or whatever, you are able then to structure your outline and from there write the actual essay.
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