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Expository Essay Characteristics
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Expository Essay Characteristics
Expository essays have many characteristics. Expository essays present a factual account without bias, include a thesis and can be organized in many ways, including topic, time order, space order, or informative process.
In A Soul as Free as theAir, written by Jone JohnsonLewis, the author chooses to describe the life of one Lucy Stone. Lucy Stone was a public speaker on African American Sufferage and among other things was the first female to attend and graduate from college. Lucy Stone spent much of her life dedicated to both minority rights and womens rights. She did many things throughout her life and the author included these things thoughout the essay. The author of this essay used time order to describe Lucy Stone’s amazing life. When documenting a persons life especially one as successful and momentous as Lucy Stone’s a chronological time frame is easier not only for the reader to understand but for the author to present the data. I see this as the best way to present as much data as a person can create in a lifetime. If the paper had been written by topic instead of by time order it would have been more about African Sufferage and women’s rights than about Lucy Stone herself.
In CochlearImplants, for some, a Miracle, for others, a Tool, by Jamie Berke the author chooses an informative process to show the reader how not only the implants work and better the lives of the people who utilize them but also to explain the effects of having to choose whether or not to receive those implants as there is risk involved. He also uses his own experiences in making the descision of receiving an implant or not. His extensive research on the process is both informative to those who are considering the process and those who are simply interested in learning more about hearing aid devices. He also uses well placed questions to cause the reader to critically think about the choices that have to be made before having the implants. He lists out the pros and cons of both sides and lets the reader decide for themselves wether or not the implants are a good decision. This process is important when the type of information being presented is more technical in nature. If the information were more personal perhaps a chronological order would have sufficed but the informative process lends itself better for the medical aspects of this paper.
Expository essays on a whole are meant to inform. They are meant to create a desire within the reader to learn more, and read more. The most important part of the expository essay is the thesis for this is the backbone of the entire paper. The thesis for this paper for instance is; Expository essays present a factual account without bias, include a thesis and can be organized in many ways, including topic, time order, space order, or informative process. This is then developed in the later paragraphs and the paper is concluded with a conclusion paragraph that wraps the paper up. Without these characteristics it would not be an expository essay.