- Opinion Essay
- Pros and Cons Essay
- Comparing and Contrasting Essay
- Cause and Effect Essay
All of these different essay styles put forward an argument of some kind. Therefore if your teacher tells you that you need to learn how to write an Argumentative Essay for your TOEFL or IELTS test, it could be any one of these four types.
Unless the exam specifically tells you what kind of essay to write (which sometimes they do - but not always), you will have to work it out for yourself. This can only be done by looking carefully at the essay topic.
An Opinion Essay will only want to know what you think about something.
A Pros and Cons Essay will want to know the good and bad points of something and also perhaps which you prefer.
A Comparing and Contrasting Essay will want to know what is the same and/or different about two or more ideas, and also perhaps which you think is better.
A Cause and Effect Essay will want to know how something has happened and what the results were, or how some things happened and what the result was. They may also ask for your opinion on it all.
- Aiyshah (New Zealand)
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