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Guidelines for Specific Genres

Essays

The Online Writing Lab at Purdue introduces and defines the four basic essay types:

  
 

expository
descriptive
narrative
argumentative (persuasive)

  
Other online sources are also helpful:  
 

Descriptive Essay

Persuasive Arguments

 

 

Roane State Community College discusses another common type of essay:

  
  Comparison and Contrast Essay  

 
 

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