Expository Paragraph (8th Meeting)

Expository Paragraph

In an expository paragraph, you give information. You explain a subject, give directions, or show how something happens. In expository writing, linking words like first, second, then, and finally are usually used to help readers follow the ideas.

This paragraph, like any other, organizes itself around three parts. A topic sentence allows the reader to understand what you are writing about. The middle part of the paragraph contains supporting sentences that follow one another in a logical sequence of steps. The concluding sentence closes your subject with an emphasis on the final product or process desired by the topic.

An example of  Expository paragraph

Topic : Explain why students do copy paste

Title	The Reason Why Students Do Copy Paste
Introductory Paragraph	Hearing the word copy paste, all of people have known what the meaning is. Yes, the meaning is that some work that have been done by someone has been duplicated by the others, and there is no differences between the content of the work or we can call it that the work is perfectly same/similar. Many student, often do the copy paste because of some reasons. They do the copy paste just because it was the easiest way of doing something, they do not need to think hard or waste the energy they had to think of the ideas. They just need to do the copy paste and it will be more practical and do not waste a lot of time, so they will have a lot of free time that they can use to do the other things.
Body Paragraph	Phenomenon of copy paste is not very strange in Indonesia and the dominant who does the copy paste is students. Is it a junior high school student, senior high school student or even the college student, they do the copy paste. There are some reasons why students do copy paste. First, lazy attitude/laziness. The student always think that doing something that waste a lot energy and time to do is very tiring. They do not want to waste the time that they. So they just do the copy paste to keep the time and the energy that they have. And they do not need to think about the answer and they always think that copy paste is the easiest way of doing their assignment. So, because of that laziness the student always do the copy paste and never try to think about the assignment or work that have been given to them by the teacher or lecturer. Second, the reason of student do copy paste is because they do not understand about the assignment. Not all of student could understand about the assignment that have been given to them. The difficulties of the assignment make the student do copy paste to answer the assignment. Not all of the student brave to ask their friends about the assignment, so they just choose the easiest way to do the assignment or to answer it. Even they ever try to answer it by themselves, but some of them still could not understand about the assignment. As a result, they just do copy paste to answer the assignment as they habit. The last is because copy paste is the easiest way to complete the task or assignment. The student do the copy paste is because they think that copy paste is the easiest way than they think by themselves. If they do the copy paste, they do not have to waste a lot of time and energy. So they will have much free time for the other activities. The student will be able to complete their task just by several minutes and do not have to think by themselves. Therefore, the students think that copy paste is an easiest way to finish or complete their task/assignment.
Concluding Paragraph	In conclusion, copy paste is a culture for the junior high school student, senior high school student, or even the college student. There are some reasons why students do copy paste, such as because of their laziness, could not understand the task or the assignment, and as an easiest way to complete their task. It is clear that copy paste can become a bad habit, so it will be better to try to avoid it.

Note :

Bold                : Topic Sentence

Italic                : Supporting Sentence

Underlined      : Concluding Sentence

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