Expository

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Expository

• Explain How or Why

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Good expository includes

• Facts or examples in order of importance
• Steps in a process or directions in chronological
  order
• Introductory paragraph
• Three paragraphs that support the introduction
• Concluding paragraph to restate introduction
• Transition words

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Transition words

• First, second, third
• One reason
• Finally
• To begin with
• Furthermore
• Also
• In addition
• Besides
• Therefore

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Getting Organized
Topic
Purpose
Audience
Reasons, steps, facts,
examples
Closing
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Sample prompt

• What is a job you do not like to do? Tell your
  classmates what the job is, and explain why you
  do not like that job.
• Clue words explain, give directions, give
  instructions, how to

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What is a job you do not like to do? Tell your
classmates what the job is, and explain why you
do not like that job.
Garbage
Tell why
Classmates
It stinks
Heavy and bag breaks
Dog spreads it over yard
Restate reasons