English Personal Essay Thoughts

What are the conventions of a “personal essay”?

A personal essay is slightly like a mix between a memoir and a normal essay. The point of a personal essay is to argue some point or to express some opinion or to teach something. However, instead of using factual information or data you use personal moments and personal experiences in order to argue your point.
Memoirs are also usually longer than a personal essay (Though this is a very simplistic way to define the differenced between the two types of writing).

Different types of writing:

1. Memoir – written in first person and mostly based on specific moments or specific memories.
2. Biography – Written in third person and is about the life story of someone written by another person.
3. Autobiography – Written in first person and is the life story of someone written by themselves.

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