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    Expository writing presents facts and explains ideas to inform readers. It does not seek to convince or persuade, but rather to explain. Common forms of exposition include definition, process, essay, mechanism/organization, analysis, reviews/criticism, and summary. When writing, select a topic and limit its scope. Develop an outline and thesis statement, and write from the outline using transitional words to ensure ideas flow logically according to time, position, or importance. Coherence requires arranging ideas in a definite, logical order.

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    Expository writing presents facts and explains ideas to inform readers. It does not seek to convince or persuade, but rather to explain. Common forms of exposition include definition, process, essay, mechanism/organization, analysis, reviews/criticism, and summary. When writing, select a topic and limit its scope. Develop an outline and thesis statement, and write from the outline using transitional words to ensure ideas flow logically according to time, position, or importance. Coherence requires arranging ideas in a definite, logical order.

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    Expository writing presents facts and explains ideas to inform readers. It does not seek to convince or persuade, but rather to explain. Common forms of exposition include definition, process, essay, mechanism/organization, analysis, reviews/criticism, and summary. When writing, select a topic and limit its scope. Develop an outline and thesis statement, and write from the outline using transitional words to ensure ideas flow logically according to time, position, or importance. Coherence requires arranging ideas in a definite, logical order.

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    Expository writing presents facts and explains ideas to inform readers. It does not seek to convince or persuade, but rather to explain. Common forms of exposition include definition, process, essay, mechanism/organization, analysis, reviews/criticism, and summary. When writing, select a topic and limit its scope. Develop an outline and thesis statement, and write from the outline using transitional words to ensure ideas flow logically according to time, position, or importance. Coherence requires arranging ideas in a definite, logical order.

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    Expository Writing

    - presents facts and explains ideas to inform the readers. - tells what something is, how it is made and how it works. - addressed more to the understanding rather than to the emotion.
    - it does not necessarily seek to convince, to persuade, or to answer. - most magazine and newspaper articles are written in expository style.
    When writing expository paragraphs keep in mind that your purpose is to inform and also know the needs of your audience.

    Most common forms of expositions are:


    Definition

    Process
    Essay

    Mechanism and organization


    Analysis Reviews and Criticism Summary

    Definition
    Definition is used in order to explain the meaning, origin and function of things. Process

    A process is a sequence of operations or actions by which something is done or made.

    Whenever you try to tell a person how to do something. Probably follow a time pattern sometimes without concious planning; that is you explain events in the order your reader can follow easily when he tries to understand or apply your directions. Essay A short literary composition on a single subject, usually presenting the personal view of the author. Formal and Informal

    Mechanism & Organization Describe what the object is, what its parts are, and how it operates. Analysis This means the separation of a whole whether an object or an idea, into its parts. Reviews & Criticisms A book review may name and define the type of literature to which the book belongs. Then classifies and summarizes it. A criticism points out the merit and element of the subject. Summary Is an abstract, or a condensation of any piece of composition.

    Writing a two-paragraph composition

    Select and Limit the topic


    Brainstorm for ideas Categorize the notes and eliminate extra details Develop an outline and thesis statement Write a composition from the outline

    Transitional Words and Phrases


    Good writing contains ideas that flow smoothly. Transition words, can make your writing more coherent by making the order of your ideas clear. To achieve coherence:

    Check that the sentences are arranged in logical manner.


    When necessary, link sentences with transitions, such as the ones below.

    Transitional Words and Phrases


    To show chronological order
    To show spatial order To show comparison and contrast To show cause and effect

    Before, during, later, next, first


    Above, around, beneath, near As, similarly, either. or, like, also Ifthen, since because, therefore, as a result

    Coherence
    is the principle of order and arrangement of ideas towards a definite goal. The arrangement of ideas should be in logical order first things come first. The arrangement may be:

    (1) according to time; (2) according to position


    (3) according importance. to increasing or decreasing

    2009 Almario, Corazon. Developing Skills in Grammar and Composition 2 1987 Thoburn, Tina. McMillan English Thinking and Writing Process 1986 Serrano, Josephine & Amos, Trinidad. Advanced Composition 3rd Edition.

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