Expository Writing

1. Expository Writing

2. Expository writing is… • Meant to inform, explain, or define the author’s subject to the reader. • One of the most widely used forms of writing in colleges and universities. • An excellent way to assess student learning.

3. Kinds of Expository Writing • Process Writing • Compare and Contrast • Classification and Division • Defining • Cause and Effect

4. Process Writing • Process writing explains how to do something or how something occurs. • It usually presents a sequence of steps and shows how those steps lead to a particular result.

5. Process EQ’s • Explain how you solve and inequality? • Explain the steps in administering CPR. • How did the U.S. become involved in Vietnam?

6. Process GO

7. Cause and Effect • Process explain how to do something or how something happens • Cause and effect is used to explain WHY something happens or to predict an outcome given a particular cause.

8. Compare and Contrast • Describes how two or more subjects are similar and/or different.

9. Compare and Contrast G.O.

10. Subject by Subject Comparison Look at each subject separately, but discuss the same points for each subject. • Example: Compare and contrast Iago and Macbeth. Iago Point 1: Ambitious Point 2: Plots against O. without remorse Macbeth Point 1: Ambitious Point 2: At first, hesitant to murder Duncan

11. Point By Point • Make a point about one subject, then follow with a comparable point about the other: • Compare and contrast Iago and Macbeth. Ambition • Iago’s Ambition • Macbeth Ambition Willingness to Plot --Iago Willing --Macbeth Unwilling

12. Classification and Division • Classification is the process of sorting Items into categories • Division takes a whole and breaks it into parts • We use these methods to put random bits of information into a useful coherent order.

13. Classification G.O.

14. Division G.O.