Essays are commonly used as literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author.
Forms and styles
- Cause and effect
- Classification and division
- Compare and contrast
- Expository
- Descriptive
- Dialectic
- Exemplification
- Familiar
- History (thesis)
- Narrative
- Argumentative
- Process
- Economic
- Reflective
- Other logical structures