For me, if you are teaching weak or average students, may be it would be easier to teach and ask them to choose Narrative Essay. There are a few reasons why I say this..........
As mentioned by Fatimi Estar in her blog, it is better if you write a story because your errors (grammar, spelling, sentence structures and so on) will not be so glaring in a story compared to a factual essay.
In addition to that we should also write about something real and close to us. This is also true if we are going to write a speech. The best speech would be the speech that tells about our own experience and perception. By doing this , we will be able to touch the heart of the listeners since we are telling what we , ourselves, experience.
There is a related technique called Sheikh Fadzir's characteristic which we usein our school. Students are asked to memorize certain descriptions of the weather, night, day, stormy weather, characteristic etc. Then they are asked to think of certain stories .. then when you are given the CW question, you already have a general idea of what your essay is going to be, with all the description of the characters involved, the description of the weather - be it night or day, stormy weather etc.. You have to memorize all this. Given any phrases (intro or ending of a story), you just have to adopt the phrases that you have memorised and adapt them to your story. Walla.... now you got a very good narrative essay complete with detailed descriptions of the characters, weather ,etc...
This is similar to what Fatimi Estar said in her blog "Prepare a story in advance. Write a story about two pages length; do not write to long because it will make the examiner spend longer time to read and mark your essay, which is quite annoying. Ask your teacher to check the grammar and the sentence structure. Then, memorize everything. Make sure that when you enter the exam hall, you have a story in your mind. Do not go there empty-headed; you will waste a lot of your precious time thinking on what to write on the spot. When you get the question paper, what you have to do is to adjust and adapt the story in your head to the question. Usually the question will ask you to write "a story beginning with..." or "a story ending with...". So, be smart and creative."
But then, if you choose to answer the one word essay. It is also the next choice. The one-word essay is quite flexible as it allows you to decide which type of essay you are going to write about.
Take the topic ‘Beauty’. If you choose to write an expository essay, you can write about what women do to look beautiful, e.g. women’s quest for beauty through plastic surgery.
If you choose to write a narrative essay, you can narrate a story related to loss of outer beauty. And if you choose to write a descriptive essay, you can focus on describing things of beauty.
ref: The Star Online, http://fatimiestar.blogspot.com
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