Expository Writing: Informative and Explanatory Texts

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Expository Writing: Informative and Explanatory Texts

Expository writing does three things; informs, describes, and explains.

Informative writing is the text used to inform or let people know about an issue or a specific topic.

Explanatory writing explains or tells about things in an understanding way.

It can be used to tell how things work or why things happen.

Everyone should know how to organize explanatory writing.

The first thing to do is helping people understand the topic you wrote or are going to talk about.

Then, you should let the people know how the topic you're going over has to do with the bigger picture (in a way.)

After that, you can compare and contrast meaning to find the similarities and differences of the different topics you're talking about.

Next, you talk about what and why the things that relate to your topic happen.

Finally, you should take into account the formatting structure.

It is good to make headers for the different sections in your text to let me know where they are.

Another good thing to put in writing would be charts, diagrams, and tables.

These will give the readers some visual aspects to help them understand better what you are talking about.

Four main key things you can add to your text are definitions, details, quotes, and examples.

Another thing to keep in mind are signal words, they are like transition words.

There are also words called domain-specific vocabulary words that can only be used for specific topics.