What is essay | type of essay | how to write essay
What is essay | type of essay | how to write essay for class 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12.

 How to write essay


Type of essay


1. Descriptive essay

2. Narrative esaay

3. Explanatory essay

4. Reflective essay

5. Argumentive essay

6. Imaginative essay

1. Descriptive Essay :- A descriptive essay is a kind of essay which produces the description of a subject, a things or an place such as animals, mountains, lakes, rivers, religious, places, palaces or building of great importance, towns, library, epics or other types of books etc.

2. Narrative Essay :- This essay is written in a narrative way. It is described like a story or series of events. It tells something about a person, thing or related places. The writer introduces himself as a narrator or story teller and describes the historical events in a chronological way. So these essays are related with historical events, legends, fables, biography of famous person, incidents, a journey or voyage. It may be either real or imaginary.

3. Explanatory essay :- The writer gets a topic and by using detail he elaboratesit in his own way. The main purpose of this essay is to inform the reader about the motive of the writer. It is co-related with descriptive essay.


4. Reflective essay :- This is that kind of essay which produces a reflection of topic of abstract nature. In other words, it is call philosophical essay because the writer gives his logic about the topic given. It consist of thoughts on the given topic like habits, qualities, social situation, political situation, domestic situation or any other religious or theological topics.

5. Argumentive essay :- This is such a kind of essay in which the essayist makes a topic in introduction and from the beginning to the end he gives reasons and arguments in favour of the sentence. It is full of discussion. So it is called a discursive essay. An argument essay produces the argument over the topic which is mostly affirmative but a discursive essay gives not only the affirmative argument of the writer but also the negative argument from the other side which is produced like a discussion. The main purpose of this essay is to convince the reader to have a faith on what is said. The general knowledge of the writer plays q vital role in this essay.

6. Imaginative essay :- This essay is the fancy or imagination of the writer. He goes beyond this world in his/her supposition and thinks himself or herself to be so strange which is impossible in real life. This essay is not bases on facts. The essay related with dreams, nightmares and supposition come under it.

How to write an essay?


As it has been stated that an essay must have at least three paragraph which are shown in the diagram.

How to write an essay?
a). As you have seen above the first paragraph is introduction paragraph, it gives the definition or identity of the topic. An essayist tells here what the topic means.

b). The second part of an essay is elaboration. The essayist gives the detail of the topic. This can be written in one or more than one paragraph according to demand. So it has been classified under some points. All points may be written in different paragraph or they can be included in one or two according to the nature of the essay first of all. But one thing must be paid attention to i.e the serial should be according to the arrows shown above. e.g. first of all merit is written, then specially is written after that importance is written and at last demerit is written.

c). The last paragraph of an essay is call an evaluation or conclusion paragraph. This part contains the view of essayist. Previous paragraph have the views of the other people collected by the writer bu his/her own view. So it is call evaluation paragraph. This type of starting sentence like " In my view, In this way,This is how / I mean to say that / As for as i am concerned etc" can help to write a conclusion for the last paragraph at the topic.