1. TYPES OF ACADEMIC ESSAYS

2. Learning Targets A good academic essay Types of academic essays
Identifying type of academic essay: Group Presentation (Outline and sample essay)

3. A GOOD ACADEMIC ESSAY Informative Convincing Perfectly structured
Academic Style

4. TYPES OF ACADEMIC ESSAY
Narrative Essay
Descriptive Essay
Argumentative Essay
Expository Essay (Process, cause and effect, classification, comparison and contrast)

5. 1. Narrative Essay Descriptions: Tells a story
Shares personal impressions from any event with the reader

6. Narrative essays: Features
An introduction (indicates what kind of narrative essay it is)
A story (chronology of events)
A conclusion that makes a point.
A lesson learned
First Person point of view  “I”

7. Narrative Essay - Example:
Picture Story  Rearrange pictures
Retell

8. 2. Descriptive Essay Descriptions:
Describe a person, a place, or an object in details

9. Descriptive Essays: Features
Systematic descriptions
e.g. from left to right, from inside to outside, from general to specific)
Clear Language
e.g. Tall  1.82 m tall
Strong  call lift a study table with one hand.

10. Descriptive Essay - Example
Guessing game: Describe an object without mentioning the name of the object.

11. 3. Argumentative Essay Descriptions: Writer’s opinion
Convincing arguments

12. Argumentative essays: Features
Writer’s opinion – clear stand
Convincing arguments

13. Argumentative Essay - Example
Uniform for college students: Agree or Disagree?

14. 4. Expository Essays
Descriptions
Essays that explains something

15. 4. Expository essays: Features
Explains how to do something
Analyzes events, ideas, objects, a written work
Gives information about something (comparisons, contrasts, causes, reasons, effects, classifications/groupings/types)

16. 4. Expository Essays: Types
Process or Procedure (how to do something)
Analysis
Comparison and Contrast
Cause and Effect
Classification

17. 4. Expository Essays: Example
How to learn English effectively

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