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The essay is a relatively short literary composition, with the most flexible structure and style of the four major literary genres, which makes it a very popular format for writing. There are many different kinds of essays, each with a unique combination of characteristics that ultimately draw on all the other literary forms. Essays can be directed to the mass audience or to a specific group of readers and can vary in degree of awareness (or lack of awareness) of the audience. In his book The Art of Interpretation (Bacon & Breene, 1961), Wallace Bacon writes that, “rather than creating a world of its own, as the literary work does, [the essay] tends to join the reader in the actual world to talk about something in which narrator and reader have a common interest—to create one side of a dialogue in which the reader supplies the other half” (412). The participation of the reader is more direct than in other literary genres, and the reader functions more as the recipient of the message rather than as the interpreter. Your response as the reader becomes the focus of the essayist’s purpose for writing.










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