How to use Essay writer
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Enter the topic
Type the question or topic, and optionally the points or arguments you want included.
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Set type, length and level
Choose one of six essay types, about 300 to 800 words, and middle school, high school or university.
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Write and study it
See how the thesis and paragraphs are built; highlighted [placeholders] show where real evidence belongs.
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Write your own
Use it as a guide or a rough draft, then put the essay into your own words with sources you've checked.
Limits and Pro
Free: a topic of up to 300 characters, up to 1,500 characters of your own points, essays of about 300, 500 or 800 words, and 20 AI requests a day per connection (5 a minute), shared with the other writing tools.
Pro allows 200 requests a day across the writing tools. See Pro
About Essay writer
Reading a complete essay on your own topic is one of the fastest ways to see how a good one is built: where the thesis sits, how each paragraph earns its place, how a counter-argument gets answered. The essay writer produces a model essay from your topic and, if you like, from your own points. Pick one of six types (argumentative, expository, persuasive, compare and contrast, narrative or descriptive), a length of about 300, 500 or 800 words, and a level from middle school to university, which changes the vocabulary and how carefully claims are qualified.
The essay is written by Claude, Anthropic's AI model, with a title, an introduction ending in a thesis, body paragraphs and a conclusion. It contains no invented sources. Where a statistic, a study or a quotation would strengthen the argument, a highlighted placeholder such as [evidence: …] or [source] tells you what to look up.
Be honest about how you use it. A model essay is good for studying structure, brainstorming arguments, checking you've covered both sides, or drafting before you rewrite everything in your own words. Handing it in as your own work breaks the rules at most schools and universities, and teachers can often tell. Check your course's policy on AI.
The writer can't read your assignment sheet, your textbook or your teacher's marking criteria, and general knowledge in the essay can still be wrong, so verify every claim before relying on it.
Privacy
Only your topic, your optional points and the options you chose are sent, and only when you press Write essay: they go to our server and to Anthropic's API, which writes the essay and returns it to this page. We don't save the topic or the essay or put them in logs, and Anthropic doesn't use API requests to train its models. Your choices of type, length and level stay in this browser.
Features
Six essay types
Argumentative, expository, persuasive, compare and contrast, narrative and descriptive.
Three levels
Middle school, high school or university vocabulary and argument.
No fake sources
Placeholders mark where evidence belongs instead of invented studies or quotations.