Essay NFHS

- Should be engaging and informative

- introduction should catch the reader's attention and establish the writer's purpose, tone and present the main statement.

- the central portion of essay that states facts, reasons, explanations, details and examples that supports the topic

- one final paragraph that brings the essay to closure

DIFFERENT TYPES OF ESSAYS

Position Essay

Informal Essay

Expository Essay

Process Essay

Informal Essay

Literary Essay

This essay is, surprisingly enough, not formal. In this essay the individual is writing, but the writing sounds more like a conversation between the reader and the writer. The structure is more “loose” than a research essay.

This type of essay is thought to be one of the most challenging of all. Literary essays are used to analyze specific parts of a book or poem in order to show the “deeper meaning” a person has found in the book.

Admission Essay

Literary Essay

Compare and Contrast Essay

Scholarship Essay

Research Essay

Compare and Contrast Essay

Literary Essay

This type of essay is used by individuals that wish to show the differences or similarities between two or several things (books, people, shapes, etc.).

This type of essay is thought to be one of the most challenging of all. Literary essays are used to analyze specific parts of a book or poem in order to show the “deeper meaning” a person has found in the book.

Informal Essay

This essay is, surprisingly enough, not formal. In this essay the individual is writing, but the writing sounds more like a conversation between the reader and the writer. The structure is more “loose” than a research essay.

Admission Essay

Position Essay

This is the type of essay you may need to write after you graduate from high school. An admission essay is a type of persuasive essay. It is used by college students in an attempt to convince the dean of admissions that they are “right” for their school.

Scholarship Essay

This type of essay is an essay that hopefully partners up with the admission essay. It is usually used in contests in order to help the winner fund their education.

This essay is not quite as hard as a research essay, but it may require one to read another’s findings from their research. After reading the findings the individual should write an essay expressing their position in the findings whether it is in agreement or not.

Process Essay

This essay may also be quite informal. The reason being is because the writer is explaining how a task is done, step by step, to their readers.

NATURE OF ESSAY

Parts of an Essay

* Title

* Introduction

* Body

A carefully structured composition containing

an introductory paragraph,

separate paragraphs

that develop the essay's main

point, and a concluding

paragraph. Essays should be

unified and the ideas

they contain should be clearly

connected to the reader.

* Conclusion

ESSAY