Expository WritingWhat is Expository Writing?Definitions?

To “Expose”…

Explanatory Prose.

Not Argumentative because purpose is not to convince but to EXPLAIN;

Not Persuasion but CLARIFICATION fro UNDERSTANDING

Often a combination of some or all of above.

Approaches or Ways to ‘EXPOSE’?

1 Causal Analysis:

a. Involves assessing WHY something happened/developed the way it did and HOW?

b. Concerns consequences of action/effects of a situation--- both present and future.

Causal Analysis is specifically a type of analytical thinking.

Process Analysis

Is an extension of C.A. but in progressive

pattern, i.e.:

a. It ranges over time

b. It explains events by considering their relation to one another, sequentially and logically.

Process Organisation: How do you go about it?

1. First: give directions, ie, what are your over-arching ideas? Write your Thesis Statement

2. Offer explanation with elaborations with a stand, with intent.

You many employ a narrative stand; or present a list of things to do or a set of considerations to bear in mind.

Illustration / Exemplification:

Use these to support explanations and

elaborations, as they CLARIFY by

illuminating you point, shedding light on the

subject in question.

Comparison

This is definitely useful as subject requires 2

things / aspects SIMULTANEOUSLY to set

one off against another in order to gain

clearer insights/understanding. These can

also be counter examples.

How to Compare? Two Methods:

1. BLOCK method: Two halves of comparison discussed separately, one after another:

Structure:

Subject A;

Subject B;

↓

Conclusion

2) Alternating method:

Introduction

Point 1 : Subject A & B

Point 2: “

Point 3: “

Final Point

↓

Conclusion

Analogy (Metaphorical) method:

It’s an extended illustration--- but more as a

partial similarity or correspondence between

TWO things/ ideas/ aspects, etc

Classification:

Requires CLOSE LOOK at terms and aspects.

It’s the making of careful distinctions and

avoidance of over-simplified explanations.

To classify is to group or categorise, which

enables us to organise info, to order or divide

masses of data and experience.