Expository Paragraph

          

When you read your textbook, the newspaper, magazine articles, or any other types of publications, you are reading expository writing. When you write answers for an essay test, you use the expository form.

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.

Remember that all paragraphs should contain a topic sentence. It may be even more important in the expository paragraph because this is where the main idea of the paragraph is expressed. This topic sentence lets the reader know what the rest of the paragraph will discuss.

Generic Structure of Expository

1.      Topic sentence

2.      Supporting sentence

3.      Concluding sentence

Language Feature of Expository

1.      Using process verb

2.      Using indefinite transition

3.      Using temporal conjunction

4.      Using question word mark, such as how

5.      Using simple present tense

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