Essay classification

In terms of content, essays are:
1. philosophical
2. literary critical
3. historical
4. artistic
5. artistic and journalistic
6. spiritual and religious, etc.
In literary form, essays are presented in the form:
1. reviews
2. lyrical miniature
3. notes
4. pages from the diary
5. letters, etc.
There are also essays:
1. descriptive
2. narrative
3. reflective
4. critical
5. analytical, etc.
In this case, the compositional features of the work performed in the essay genre are taken as the basis.
Finally, a classification of essays into two large groups is proposed:
- a personal, subjective essay, where the main element is the disclosure of one or another side of the author's personality;
- an objective essay, where the personal principle is subordinated to the subject of description or some idea.
An essay by a young specialist on a specific topic belongs to the second group.

Essay signs

There are some common features of the genre, which are usually listed in encyclopedias and dictionaries:
1) Small volume.
2) A specific topic and its highly subjective interpretation.
3) Free composition is an important feature of the essay.
4) Ease of storytelling.
5) Tendency to paradox.
6) Internal semantic unity.
7) Spoken language orientation.