This document discusses essay type questions and how to construct them. It defines essay questions as requiring detailed, multi-sentence answers that demonstrate critical thinking across different dimensions. It outlines Bloom's Taxonomy of cognitive skills that can be assessed through essay questions, from lower-order skills like knowledge and comprehension to higher-order skills like analysis, synthesis and evaluation. The document also discusses developing a scoring scheme for essay questions that evaluates various features of answers, and provides examples of different types of essay questions and their advantages and disadvantages.