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An essay is a short piece of writing in which an author explores a particular subject or idea, often from a personal perspective. Essays matter because they allow writers to share their thoughts and observations on topics in an accessible way that engages readers in thinking alongside them.

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Essay: Using Machine Learning for Antibiotic Discovery.ReviewPhysical review letters · 2025de la Fuente-Nunez C, Collins JJDOI: 10.1103/y3fg-s9vg
Essay: Exploring the Physics of Basic Medical Research.Physical review letters · 2024Sandoghdar VDOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.090001
Computerization of Off-Topic Essay Detection: A possibility?Education and information technologies · 2022Shahzad A, Wali ADOI: 10.1007/s10639-021-10863-y
Historical essay: An Arabic surgeon, Ibn al Quff's (1232-1286) account on surgical pain relief.ReviewAnesthesia, essays and researches · 2010Takrouri MSDOI: 10.4103/0259-1162.69298
Essay: Where Can Quantum Geometry Lead Us?Physical review letters · 2023Törmä PDOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.240001
Reviewer Experience Detecting and Judging Human Versus Artificial Intelligence Content: The Stroke Journal Essay Contest.ReviewStroke · 2024Silva GS, Khera R, Schwamm LHDOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.124.045012
Essays on Syphilis. Essay I: Syphilitic Sarcocele.ReviewThe British and foreign medico-chirurgical review · 1850
An automated essay scoring systems: a systematic literature review.Artificial intelligence review · 2022Ramesh D, Sanampudi SKDOI: 10.1007/s10462-021-10068-2

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Contents

Definitions
History
Montaigne
Europe
Japan
China
Forms and styles
Cause and effect
Classification and division
Compare and contrast
Expository
Descriptive
Dialectic
Exemplification
Familiar
History (thesis)
Narrative
<span class="anchor" id="Argumentative"></span>Argumentative
Process
Economic
Reflective
Other logical structures
Academic
Magazine or newspaper
Employment
Non-literary types
Film
Video
Music
Photography
Visual arts
See also
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References
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thumb|Essays of Michel de Montaigne

An essay (, ) is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal and informal: formal essays are characterized by "serious purpose, dignity, logical organization, length," whereas the informal essay is characterized by "the personal element (self-revelation, individual tastes and experiences, confidential manner), humor, graceful style, rambling structure, unconventionality or novelty of theme," etc.