essay

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concept

An essay is a structured piece of writing that presents a focused argument, analysis, or reflection on a specific topic, typically supported by evidence and organized into an introduction, body, and conclusion.

All labels observed (49)

Label Occurrences
essay collection 736
essay canonical 509
philosophical essay 185

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: essay
Generated description
An essay is a structured piece of writing that presents a focused argument, analysis, or reflection on a specific topic, typically supported by evidence and organized into an introduction, body, and conclusion.

Instances (1,760)

Instance Via concept surface
Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times is a collection of previously published treatises and essays
surface form: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times
essay collection
David Foster Wallace
surface form: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
essay collection
La nueva transición political essay
Their Morals and Ours political essay
Undoing Gender essay collection
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence essay collection
La prise de parole essay collection
Essays on the Anthropology of Reason essay collection
The Conflict of Interpretations essay collection
Letters on the Study and Use of History essay collection
Reflections upon Exile
Case History of a Movie written work
Heyday written work
Honey written work
The Art of Political Lying
An Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning
Études d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences essay collection
Le Livre à venir essay collection
L’Amitié essay collection
La Communauté inavouable philosophical essay
On Practice philosophical essay
On Contradiction philosophical essay
Lettre sur les aveugles à l’usage de ceux qui voient philosophical essay
The Two Cultures
Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World essay collection
essay "Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography"
surface form: Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography
essay "The Rani of Sirmur"
surface form: The Rani of Sirmur
essay "Displacement and the Discourse of Woman"
surface form: Displacement and the Discourse of Woman
critical essay
essay "Feminism and Critical Theory"
surface form: Feminism and Critical Theory
essay "Criticism, Feminism, and the Institution"
surface form: Criticism, Feminism, and the Institution
essay "The Political Economy of Women as Seen by a Literary Critic"
surface form: The Political Economy of Women as Seen by a Literary Critic
essay "The Letter as Cutting Edge"
surface form: The Letter as Cutting Edge
critical essay
essay "The Setting to Work of Deconstruction"
surface form: The Setting to Work of Deconstruction
essay "The New Historicism: Political Commitment and the Postmodern Critic"
surface form: The New Historicism: Political Commitment and the Postmodern Critic
essay "The Political Economy of Translation"
surface form: The Political Economy of Translation
Blindness and Insight essay collection
The Rhetoric of Romanticism essay collection
Resistance to Theory essay collection
Nature (1836 book)
Nature; Addresses, and Lectures essay collection
The Present Time
The New Downing Street
Parliaments and Talkings
Hudson’s Statue
Toast to the Lassies speech
Reply to the Toast to the Lassies speech
Borges: el tiempo y la eternidad essayistic work
Seeds of Time essay collection
The Concept of Enlightenment philosophical essay
Excursus I: Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment philosophical essay