Personal essay

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Students of all ages and education levels are asked to write essays, but those essays probably wouldn't sell very well in a bookstore.

Writing an autobiography requires that a writer have at least some interesting experiences to recount, and it usually takes longer than the amount of time spent in elementary school to amass enough interesting experiences to create a bestselling autobiography.

Types of Essays

There are four traditional types of essays and only one is autobiographical.

Persuasive essays argue a point and try to convince readers to agree.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE …

Expository essays provide factual information without a writer's analysis of those facts included. Descriptive essays are used to describe an event or other topic. Only narrative essays are written about personal experiences in order to tell a story in the same way an autobiography does.

Narrative essays, like the othe