Topci 12: Expository Texts
Slides in this set (5)
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- Purpose = inform and describe (extend knowledge)
- Aim = clarify and provide information (needs research)
- Uses
- facts and details
- opinions and examples
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- Language = precise, objective and focused on the subject
- Organisation = paragraphs
- thematic progression (introduction / development / conclusion)
- topic sentence
- Shared Knowledge - consider age, education and context
- Information offered - attention must be paid to
- vocabulary
- point of departure
- method of exposition - definition
- comparison
- example
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- Description = list characteristics and features
- Sequence = list items or events
- numerical
- chronological
- Comparison and contrast = list similarities and differences
- Cause and effect = why something happened and results
- Problem and solution
- Pro-con = list positive and negative effects
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- Definition
- Logical (A = B - C)
- Rhetorical (more elaborated and may include examples)
- Classification and division = arrangements of ideas
- Classification = several items into groups
- Division = one item into parts
- Example = Illustration (concrete detail / sense of participation)
- Comparison and contrast - analogy, simile, metaphor
- Cause and effect = Analysis - reasons and consequences
- Process analysis - answers how
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- (Tompkins, 1998)
- Introduce organisational pattern
- Give students opportunities to work on texts
- Invite students to write paragraphs using the patterns