Expository Writing

Expository Writing

Unit 5

"How to analyze and explain the world"

Types of Expository Writing

explain a process
analyze cause and effect connections
compare and contrast *
analyze problems and present solutions
build a reasonable hypothesis
write about literature *
use time lines and process diagrams to enhance expository writing

Writing Expository Paragraphs

Planning Your Writing
Select a topic
How to approach it - Type of question to answer?
Questions to ask and explore. . .

Transitional Words

Time: after, always, before, finally, first, immediately, later, now ...

Place: above, ahead, around, below, down, far, here, inside, near..

Order of Importance: first, former, latter, primarily, secondarily...

Cause and Effect: as a result, because, by, so, then, therefore...

Comparison Contrast: but, even more, however, just as, like, on the other hand...

Example: for example, for instance, namely, that is...

Model:

That ivory bracelet you just couldn't resist threatens the very existence of elephants in Africa. Mature elephant populations have been virtually wiped out. Poachers kill more and more young adults and juveniles. Elephant families have been destroyed. The killings have disrupted the elephants' breeding patterns.

How does the ivory bracelet in the first sentence threaten elephants???

Rewritten Paragraph:

That ivory bracelet you just couldn't resist may be the end of a cruel and illegal process that threatens the very existence of elephants in Africa. In many regions, mature elephant populations have been virtually wiped out by ruthless poachers seeking large tusks for ivory. Therefore, poachers now kill more and more young adults and even juveniles to get the same amount of ivory. Because of the slaughter, the elephants' breeding patterns have been disrupted. As a result, females bear fewer offspring, shrinking the population even more.