有时候这些单词的区别要看他的英文意思才能更好的理解，以下解释仅做参考:article=a piece of writing in a newspaper or magazine 文章;论文 composition=1，a piece of music of poetry that you have written作品（谱写的乐曲或创作的诗歌）2=a short piece of writing done as an education exercise写作练习；作文 essay=a short pece of writing on a particalar subject，written especially as part of a course of study 论说文;散文;随笔writings=all the books and other things that someone has written著作theme=an idea which is repeated a number of times in a work of art or literature（艺术或文学作品的）主题美国人也用paper来说论文，像我们毕业是的毕业论文，我们都说是paper
