Expository Writing

Here are some key points from our lessons on expository writing:

--The author's purpose is to inform, describe, explain, and present information.

--Your expository writing exhibits your knowledge of a subject. That knowledge may be familiar to you already or it may require research.

--It will be fact based, not opinion based.

--Do not use 1st and 2nd person pronouns. Focus your attention on the topic, not yourself or the reader.

--In an expository essay you can compare and contrast, identify cause and effect, divide and classify, or you can explain a topic in great detail.