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Writing an Expository Essay

What is an Expository Essay? . Expository is just a synonym for informationThe expository essay attempts to completely cover a narrow topic.The information is clear

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Writing an Expository Essay

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    1. Writing an Expository Essay

    2. What is an Expository Essay? Expository is just a synonym for information The expository essay attempts to completely cover a narrow topic. The information is clear & concise, to the point. Your job is to totally expose the topic. Makes the information unmistakably clear to your audience.

    3. An expository essay is totally objective Your job is to explain & inform Don’t give an opinion or an argument. This is an impartial analysis of facts & evidence It is written in the third person, “he, she”.

    4. Know Your Audience The goal of an expository essay is to the reader a full understanding of a complex process or situation. Ask yourself if your readers are familiar with your topic. Don’t not to "overstate the case” Provide all the relevant information on your topic Don’t filling your essay with general information.

    5. The Expository Essay Format It has an Introduction, Body, and Conclusion. You can use the techniques of compare and contrast, cause and effect. use examples, statistics and or definitions.

    6. Introduction Paragrah The expository essay introduction is a statement of the essay’s thesis. Sub-topics will be developed within the essay body.

    7. The Pargaraphs Each paragraph of the body must have an main idea example that directly relates to the essay thesis. All supporting sentences within each body paragraph must directly support the and be factual relationship to each main/idea Using transition sentences … help the organization and the logic of your composition help the reader to move smoothly from point to point of your essay.

    8. Concluding the Expository Essay End your expository essay by restating your thesis and summarizing the points/main ideas/examples that lead to your conclusion

    9. Revise your essay Ideas Do you have a Grabber sentence a Thesis Statement three main ideas/examples to support your Thesis Statement Organization Do you have topic sentence for each body paragraph (II, III, IV) have examples to support (explain) your main ideas Transition sentences between each paragraph Word Choice Did you use interesting and descriptive words just the right word? Voice Does your essay make me feel an emotional response to your topic Sentence Fluency If you read your essay out loud, would is be easy to understand? Did you begin your sentences in different ways? Do you have some short and some long sentences?

    10. Edit Your Essay Conventions (mechanical errors) spelling Punctuation Grammar Capital letters Paragraph indentations

    11. Final Draft Type or hand write VERY neatly. Skip lines if asked to. Make it look beautiful!

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