Writing a classification essay

This type of essay is a very specific one as it deals with the Classification of organizing the logical connections in it. The author of a classification essay is supposed to organize or sort the arguments of the essay in categories. An important thing to mention is that the categories are to fully resemble the essence of the essay’s topic.

How to write a Classification essay

In order to write a professional classification essay three advices should be kept in mind. First of all the organized categories are expected to fully reveal the theme of the essay and therefore must be very useful in terms of the classification Classification. In spite of the amount of the separated categories each of them must follow one logical principle. And also each of the presented categories is to provide examples.

Classification essay Outline

This rubric is a condensed treatment of the Classification essay writing, this Outline is just a description of the main facts and rules about how to write this type of essay. One should practice as much as possible to become good in writing a Classification essay.

Classification essay structure  

 The structure of a classification essay is built around the construction of the categories.

1. Introduction

(The basic part pf the introduction is the thesis statement. The strength of the thesis statement depends on how well it reveals the topic and its classification. It is to justify the specific categories chosen for this classification).
The thesis statement has a very determined logical structure: theme® its classification® chosen categories (the number of categories is suggested to be limited to three in order not to blur the classification).
For instance: Exchange students can face three benefits: education, experience and cultural exchange.

1. Body

• First category (The less important category).
• Second category
• Third category (The most important one and requires brighter examples).

In a good classification essay each category must follow one organizing principle. The categories can be organized on the basis of forming different groups of arguments).

1. Conclusion

The conclusion is the summary of the analyzed categories and the restatement of the thesis statement.

Classification essay format

This type of essay like all others could be formated in MLA, Chicago/Turabian, APA, AMA. That depends on your essay topic, subject area and the assignment requeirements. Please be consistent following the one style of format of all the essay elements: Title, headings, paragraphs Text pages, Fonts, Indents, Justifications, Spacing, Page numbers, Emphasis, Footnotes, reference list etc.