Expository Writing Principles and Text Structure

Review: Expository Writing Fundamentals

1) What is Expository Writing?

A: The main purpose of expository texts is to inform and explain.

2) The Function of Expository Texts?

A: Since the goal is to inform, it employs the referential function of language, so that the receiver's comprehension increases or alters the areas they have about one's own knowledge.

3) Key Elements of Textual Unity:

• a) Local Consistency: Text presented in a clear and orderly manner.
• b) Cohesion: Network of explicit relationships between sentences. It is a linguistic phenomenon.
• c) Coreference: Consists in the repetition of personages, ideas, or places in the text processes.
• d) Pronominalization: Action to avoid repetition.

4) What is the Function of Connectors in Expository Writing?

A: These are links that point to relations between clauses or sentences.

5) Explain the Organization of Expository Texts?

R:

1. Introduction
2. Development (Body)
3. Findings

6) What are the Most Common Types of Expository Texts?

R: Descriptive, enumerative or sequential, comparative, causal, problem-solution.

Expository Text Types

Exhibition can be informative or specialized. It is informative when the information offered can be accessed by any person, and specialized when it requires a set of ascertained knowledge.

Structure Examples:

1. Problem-Solution: Presents a problem and provides possible solutions.
2. Cause and Effect: Presents an event or situation and explains the reasons.
3. Comparison-Contrast: Identifies similarities and differences between two ideas or echoes.
4. Process or Sequence: Has a number of events in a temporal, non-random order.
5. Description: Lists features of a theme or object.

Features of Expository Texts:

1. Written Presentation: Highlighting the appearance of typographic resources. Two functions:
   • Order and numbering purpose to establish text paragraphs that appear in the text.
   • Highlighting some information to be new or relevant.
2. Lexicon: It is generally required to have a descriptive character. There abounds topic-specific vocabulary developed.
3. Verb Tenses: The predominant indication is mainly the present and the past.
4. Syntax: The syntax adjusts to the usual ordering of sentences.