Communication

Expository Writing

  Learning Target(s):

  • Recognize and understand how different forms, formats, structures, and features of texts enhance and shape meaning and impact.
  • Transform ideas and information to create original texts using various genres, forms, structures, and styles.



To best understand the expository writing style, it might be helpful to recognize its root word:  expose. To expose means to uncover or lay something bare. In other words, it means to explain something: to present the facts and to write truthfully, without bias.   Initially, this might sound like expository writing is as simple as stating the obvious.  But it’s more than that.  The following video will give you an in-depth explanation of this useful writing style:   




There are many circumstances wherein the ability to communicate effectively, using the expository style, is a necessity:

  • When explaining cause and effect relationships,
  • When making comparisons or contrasts
  • When illustrating a point or providing examples
  • When writing research reports or conducting scientific studies
  • When creating ‘how-to” content and other instructional materials

     ...and these are just a few examples.  






Source: https://literarydevices.net/expository-essay/