THESAURUS
allegorizing, analysis, annotative, article, clarifying, column, comment, commentary, commentation, critical, critical review, criticism, critique, demonstrative, demythologizing, elucidative, enlightening, essay, euhemeristic, exegetic, exemplificative, explaining, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, expositive, expository, gloss, glossarial, illuminating, illuminative, illustrative, journalese, journalistic, leader, leading article, magazinish, magaziny, newspaperish, newspapery, notice, periodical, rationalistic, rationalizing, remark, report, reportorial, review, running commentary, scholiastic, serial, write-up
ROGET THESAURUS
Dissertation
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dissertation, treatise, essay, thesis, theme, monograph, tract, tractate, tractation, discourse, memoir, disquisition, lecture, sermon, homily, pandect, excursus, commentary, review, critique, criticism, article, leader, leading article,
editorial, running commentary, investigation, study, discussion, exposition, commentator, critic, essayist, pamphleteer, discursive, discoursive, disquisitionary, expository.