Review Chapters 6, 7, and 8 of Essentials of College Writing. Thus far in the course, you have been working on a personal essay of your own, and you have been writing journals that analyze the work of professional writers in their personal essays. In your initial post for this discussion:

Describe how point of view, structure, and tone differ in the three different types of essays explained in the textbook.
Explain which of the genres the journal entry most closely resembles and why.
Ask your peers a question you have about this week’s assigned reading.

Your initial post must be 200 to 300 words in length and posted by Day 3. Support your claims with examples from the required material(s) and/or other scholarly sources, and properly cite any references as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Respond to two classmates. In each response:

Note any similarities and differences in your description of the essay types and the description your peer provided.
Answer your classmate’s question to the best of your knowledge.

preview of the answer..

In any form of writing, there are different aspects in the writing that dictate what form it is. Personal writing, persuasive writing and exposition writing all differ in terms of the tone, structure and the point of view, all based on the message intended to be passed by the article. The tone in personal writing is one that should be less formal and allows the use of contractions. In persuasive papers on the other hand, due to the fact that they are based on making the reader see logic, the tone can be a formal to informal one. The tone in expositions should, however, be strictly formal.

The point of view in personal essays is based on the first person since on is usually trying to get the reader to see things as he does. Persuasive papers are aimed on winning people over …

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