AUDIO LESSON: Expository Essay Review
The Purpose of Expository Writing:
Rhetoric is defined as the art of persuasion. Writing, fundamentally is an exercise in rhetoric.
Expository writing especially relies on the cognitive challenge of persuading a captivated audience where the writer reveals her/his ability to synthesize, analyze, and evaluate.
There is perhaps no greater practice for developing strategies in critical thinking than writing.
Where to Begin:
Often times teachers and professors in academic institutions provide the writer with a prompt to write about. When given the opportunity to determine a topic the writer should always lean on the most fundamental understanding before the writer can advance the reader’s insight.
The best place therefore is for the writer to consider the reader.
The Structure of Expository Writing:
Ideally the writer’s voice emerges as a significant means of persuasion. Quite often though young developing writers are misled or distracted pursuing their voice. Remember that the writer’s purpose in expository expression is to advance the reader’s perspective. Developing writers can lose their reader’s ability to follow the writer’s synthetic thought by pursuing an untrained writer’s voice.
The structure of the essay guides both the reader and the writer.
The Thesis Statment:
Every instructor of writing emphasizes the importance of the thesis. For good reason, the thesis is the compass–the gateway of your discussion. A well-articulated thesis that establishes the opportunity for meaningful insight is the most essential opportunities for establishing the writer’s credibility. The thesis can be viewed as the heart of the essay where all other advancing discussion flows from.
The Body of the Expository Essay:
If the thesis is the heart of the essay then the body is the soul. The body of an expository essay delves into the writer’s advancing explanation offering logic and credibility supported by evidence.
As you advance in the writing process you gain your reader’s respect by your ability to clarify–demonstrating how your expressed point is supported by the evidence that you not only offer, but selected to substantiate your point.
The Conclusion should not be a Redundant Afterthought:
Many instructors inform their students that a conclusion begins by restating the thesis. This advice is sound, however it often misleads developing writers into the mindset that the conclusion is an exclusive summary exercise. The essential purpose of the conclusion is to review your expressed points while fulfilling your responsibility to demonstrate to the reader the value of your discussion.