Essays are more or less what we post on our blogs. We write a lot of them in school, at whatever educational level we are. There are many websites that can offer help, usually affiliated with universities, but sometimes not.
One site I've run across is Essay Info. It offers Basics of Essay Writing, Writing Guides, Essay Types, Citation Styles, Presentation Writing, and Business Writing (see the left sidebar on the site). It should give you some help in starting to write essays, or in polishing the essays you already write.
Guide to Grammar and Writing also offers you some help with essays and with grammar. Click on "Index" in the middle of the page for a list of what they offer.
An example of a university affiliated writing website is O.W.L (Online Writing Lab) from Purdue University. Click on "The Owl at Purdue" at the top of the screen and look at the list in the right sidebar for the topics that interest you. You can also do a little searching and find such writing helps from your favorite university. For example, see "Other Online Writing Centers" here.
These types of sites can give you some quick grammar advice and some basic essay writing advice that will help you polish your own writing. If you are like me, you write without any very formal method and, while that is fine most of the time, there will be times when a subject is important to you, or you know there will be arguments against your view, and you want to put more effort into writing a finely tuned essay.
Most of us are good at Googling by now, but I like to highlight sites that I think may prove useful to you. Still, if you aren't satisfied with these suggestions, you could run a search of your own. Enjoy!
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