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Expository Writing
By: Ms. McGrady
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Expository Writing
•Quick Write: •What do you think of when you hear Expository Writing?
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What are the Two Types
• Exposing or Uncovering a Topic
• Process Essay: “How To” Essay
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3 Important Questions
• Why? (Explains the statement)
• How? (Gives examples to answer the why?)
• What difference does it make? (Consequences or results of the how?)
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How The Questions Help
• Organize your thoughts
• Develop the body paragraphs
• Can be used in either type of essay
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Top Layer: Statement or Reason
• 1-2 sentences• Key Questions=Why?• Beginning of the
Paragraph
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Middle Layer: Examples/Descriptions/Details
• Several Sentences/Thickest layer
• Key Question=How? (Related to the why?)
• Middle of the Paragraph
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Bottom Layer-Conclusion or Wrap it
Up• 1-2 Sentences• Key Question=What
difference does it make? (consequences of the how?)
• End of the Paragraph
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Other Information
• A Cake=1 Body Paragraph
• In 1 Essay you have 5 Paragraphs
• You bake 3 cakes because you have 3 body paragraphs
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These
Are the
Body
Paragraphs
Each cake is a Paragraph
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You gotta have a PLAN!
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Plan for Expository Essays
– Choose 1 Subject– List 3 Reasons– Bake 3 Cakes (1 for each
reason)– Use subject and reasons to
write the introduction and the conclusion paragraphs
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Introduction
Visual: big to small
Discuss subject Preview 3 Reasons
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Conclusion – Restate Subject– Restate/Review 3
Reasons
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What I don’t Want: the Block
– 5-10 sentences– Run-on sentences or
paragraphs with no topic– Topic wanders– Built around weak verbs– Large subject with no
specific point (unrelated information)