Introduction

INTRODUCTION

Academic writing is a path every student has to walk: learning at college demands a scientific structure thought based mainly on writing. For learning or teaching, academic writing is the only way in the scientific world to convey new ideas, discuss topics or support new theories. ¨In getting to grips with the process of academic writing, a useful starting point is to explore its nature, phases, and characteristics. ¨ (Murray & Moore, 2006.) A good starting is to explore the different types of essays with examples tailored by students. That way students will know when to use an argumentative, descriptive, narrative, expository, or persuasive essay in order to consolidate a solid information. ¨Academic writing is a relationship between the form of thinking and the form of discourse. ¨ (Peters, 2009.) Academic writing is the body and soul of scientific communication.

Researching on types of essays is very inclusive in students´ repertoire in order to fulfill different tasks at the university, whether the student may need to explain, describe or interpret a particular situation, experience or idea, using personal experiences or information. Or probably the student needs to stand on an issue, and that way develop an argument explaining why he/she have made a particular choice. Maybe the student requires to recount a personal experience or he wants to expose a position about some idea. The essays are the conveyor line of ideas between teacher and student in the academic world.