Types of Essays
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| What is an Essay? | A short piece of writing that discusses, describes or analyzes one topic.
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| Name four types of essays. | Narrative, Descriptive, Expository,and Persuasive
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| Narrative essays | A form of essay that resembles a story with characters, plot, setting, climax, and conclusion.
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| Description essays | Describes an object, person, event, place, emotion, situation, etc.
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| expository essays | Explains something using comparison and contrast, examples, definition, and analysis of cause and effect.
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| Persuasive essays | Requires the writer to take a position after investigating, collecting and evaluating evidence on a topic in order to persuade the reader to the writer's point of view.
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| What is the essay format? | Five paragraphs with an introduction, three supporting, and a conclusion paragraph.
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| What are the components of a paragraph? | Topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a conclusion sentence.
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| Name three types of sentences. | Simple, complex, and compound.
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| What are literary conventions? | Punctuation, such as, periods, commas, semicolons, colons, question marks, quotation marks, and exclamation marks.
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| What are the most common transition words? | And, but, or, so, nor
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