...Unit 2 Assignment 1 Essay 2 Expository Essay “Crystal Balls” The author Kim Pittaway remembers more than 20 years ago when the question “Where will you be in 2000?”was posed at a New Years Eve party. She remembers what she said and it makes her ponder all the accomplishments of Canadian women since then. She wonders whether the past “trailblazers” have done the future women any favors in fighting for equal rights. She wants to feel proud of how far women have come in terms of rights, just treatment and appropriate monetary compensation but does that have to be at the cost of principles? “Parts of her” want to be that person that is a section of a relay team that carries the torch for women’s equality and rights. To be proud to prove that women can conquer in their multi-tasking skills and show men’s shortcomings and limitations. Other “parts” of her balk at the thought of proving female achievement at the cost of establishing the deficiencies of men. The victory would not be complete if received while minimizing the contributions of the opposite gender. She thinks of her mother and grandmothers that were working parents and brought home paychecks that equaled the value of their male partners. Generations back when females were only hired out of grudging necessity is a time better left to history. She doesn’t feel comfortable with the idea that it’s women’s turn to enjoy the rewards of the future and for men to taste the unfairness of the past. She doesn’t feel...
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...explains, the general purpose for expository writing is to explain and explore, and typical examples include: - Essays - Nonfiction articles in journals, magazines, and other periodicals - Business and technical reports - Nonfiction books Other examples of expository writing are all around us as instructions--user guides for software, the text on food packaging, and the text on the dashboard of your car--all these are exposition, because they explain things. These instructions can often be single words (Stop) or short phrases rather than longer discourses. Noticing this helps you to put exposition in perspective as something you encounter every day in multiple different contexts, and it affects your everyday life in ways you generally don't notice. Most people will write expositions at school and at work in the form of reports and essays, and will need to be able to analyze expository works like articles, reports, and books. An understanding of the methods, patterns, and typical strategies for effective explanations will help you both in reading and writing this type of text. For this discussion, please do the following: 1. Find two short examples of expository writing from your personal reading over the past few months. 2. Copy a short quote from each example. 3. Write a short post that includes the quote and a short commentary that provides context for it; where it came from and why it is an example of expository writing. Here's an example of what...
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...Expository text argumentative essay, killing Daniel written by Helen garner Question: non-fiction texts make comment on contemporary Australian society. Discuss. The function of an Expository text is to make comment on society in order to educate us on a world that we don’t have much experience with. The non-fiction text Killing Daniel written by Helen Garner, comments on contemporary Australian society by examining our refusal to open our eyes to brutal reality. Helen Garner exposes the horrific and brutal story of Daniel Valerio, whom in society permitted to be beaten to death at only the age of two by his own mothers ‘boyfriend’. Garner comments that as a result of societies apathy, and refusal to open our eyes to reality, we allow evil to prosper within the society we live in. Expository texts open our eyes to the harsh reality of life and encourage us to take action against societies apathy. In the text killing Daniel, Garner comments on apathy within contemporary Australian society by describing those who lack action and concern towards those considered as ‘outsiders.’ By the use of descriptive language Garner describes apathy within the professional’s walls of society. Garner remarks that people with profession’s dealing with aberrant abuse can become desensitized to these situations, which often result in horrific consequences. This is reinforced by Garners comment that doctors were “impressed in court by their lackluster quality. Their manner appeared limp, their...
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...DESCRIPTION is one of four rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse), along with exposition, argumentation, and narration. Each of the rhetorical modes is present in a variety of forms and each has its own purpose and conventions. Description is also the fiction-writing mode for transmitting a mental image of the particulars of a story. Description as a fiction-writing mode Fiction is a form of narrative, one of the four rhetorical modes of discourse. Fiction-writing also has distinct forms of expression, or modes, each with its own purposes and conventions. Agent and author Evan Marshall (agent) identifies five fiction-writing modes: action, summary, dialogue, feelings/thoughts, and background (Marshall 1988, pp. 143–165). Author and writing-instructor Jessica Page Morrell lists six delivery modes for fiction-writing: action, exposition, description, dialogue, summary, and transition (Morrell 2006, p. 127). Author Peter Selgin refers to methods, including action, dialogue, thoughts, summary, scene, and description (Selgin 2007, p. 38). Currently, there is no consensus within the writing community regarding the number and composition of fiction-writing modes and their uses. Description is the fiction-writing mode for transmitting a mental image of the particulars of a story. Together with dialogue, narration, exposition, and summarization, description is one of the most widely recognized of the fiction-writing modes. As stated in Writing from A to Z, edited by Kirk...
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...LECTURE 2 – POWELL THE WRITING PROCESS KINDS OF WRITING/DISCOURSE TYPES: THE BASIC PURPOSES OF WRITING ARE TO INFORM, TO PERSUADE, AND TO ENTERTAIN. Prose is ordinary written/spoken language without poetic structure. Prose that informs is called exposition/expository writing. Expository writing explains how things work, ideas, how to solve a problem, facts about everyday life, history, controversial issues. Expository writing is constructed LOGICALLY – organized around structures like cause and effect, true and false, less and more, positive and negative, general and specific, sequences or series of steps/procedures, chronology, etc. Ideas in exposition are moved along by connectives like therefore, however, but, in fact, and, for example. An example of expository writing is the information report – facts about a subject with descriptions, definitions and classifications, e.g. scientific reports or business reports with diagrams, technical language or jargon (words/expressions specific to a particular profession). Certain descriptive and narrative writing can also fall under the category of writing that informs. Descriptions of the details of experiences, people, places, situations, processes should be arranged into a meaningful pattern, and narration should give an account of related events/incidents as in a report and in a logical sequence. Prose that persuades is often called argumentative writing. The writer takes a stand, proving an opinion/argument...
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...OUTLINE Name: ___________________________________ Date: ______________ Topic Subtopic I. _________________________________________________ A. ___________________________________________ 1. ______________________________________ 2. ______________________________________ 3. ______________________________________ 4. ______________________________________ Supporting details Subtopic Supporting details B. ___________________________________________ 1. ______________________________________ 2. ______________________________________ 3. ______________________________________ 4. ______________________________________ Subtopic Supporting details C. ___________________________________________ 1. ______________________________________ 2. ______________________________________ 3. ______________________________________ 4. ______________________________________ Subtopic Supporting details D. ___________________________________________ 1. ______________________________________ 2. ______________________________________ 3. ______________________________________ 4. ______________________________________ GO.9.1 PLANNER FOR NEWSPAPER ARTICLE Name: ___________________________________ Date: _______________ Title of Article ________________________________________________________________ Introduction (who, what, when, and where) __________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ____________...
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...Humanities Department Course Prefix and Number: ENGL 111 Course Title: English Composition I Number of: Credit Hours 3 Lecture Hours 3 Lab Hours 0 Catalog Description: Expository writing to practice traditional rhetorical modes and strategies, to increase analytical clarity, and to achieve precise expression. Grade of C or higher required. Prerequisite: Grade of C or higher in ENGL 107, or placement by ACT English Score or by SAT Writing Score: students whose ACT English Score is from 18 to 29 or whose SAT Writing Score is from 430 to 650 will be placed in ENGL 111. Offered Fall and Spring. Prerequisite(s) / Corequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in ENGL 107, or placement by ACT English Score or by SAT Writing Score: students whose ACT English Score is from 18 to 29 or whose SAT Writing Score is from 430 to 650 will be placed in ENGL 111. Course Rotation for Day Program: Offered Fall and Spring. Text(s): Most current editions of the following: Many English Composition texts are available. The recommended choices listed below are numerous, so please read the complete listings carefully. Required texts must include: • A handbook (choose from texts 1-4 below); • A rhetoric (choose from texts 5-10 below); and, • An anthology of expository writing. Combinations of these are also available (texts 11-16 below). Note: For locations where it is necessary to continue in ENGL 112 with at least one text used in ENGL 111, texts 14-16...
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...I.Introduction *History Ang probinsya ng Bulacan ay natuklasan ng mga mangingisda bago pa dumating ang mga Kastila sa bansa. Nanggaling sila mula sa baybayin ng Maynila at lumipat sa lupaing ito kung saan mataba ang lupa at napapaligiran ng ilog at batis. Lumaki ang bilang ng mga naninirahan dito at ngayon ay kilala na bilang lalawigan ng Bulakan. Pinaniniwalaan na ang salitang Bulacan ay nanggaling sa salitang tagalog na bulak. Nang dumating ang mga espanyol sa ating bansa, napansin nila na sagana ang tubo ng bulak sa Luzon partikular na sa Bulacan. Sa panahon ng pagsakop sa Luzon ni Adelanto Miguel Legazpi noong 1571, ang Bulacan ay iniulat na isang mahusay at mayamang lugar. Noong una, meron lamang anim na encomiendas sa ilalim ng pamumuno ng Alcalde Mayor sa Bulacan, kabilang sa anim na encomiendas ang : Calumpit (at ang Alcaldia) Bulakan, Malolos, Meycauayan, Binto (ngayon ay Plaridel), Guiguinto, at Caluya (ngayon ay Balagtas). Sa kalaunan ang mga encomiendas ay isinaayos sa mga Pueblo (bayan). Ang unang pueblo na naitayo sa Bulacan ay ang bayan ng Calumpit, ito ay itinatag ng mga prayleng Augustinian noong taong 1575. Ang calumpit din ay ang lugar na sinilangan ng mga historikal na dokumento ng Kristiyanismo, ang Calumpit ay pinaniniwalaang hiwalay sa Bulacan sakop daw nito ang Provincia de Calonpite y Hagonoy at ang Apalit. Noong 1578 napagdesisyonan ng alkalde ng Calumpit na isama na ang bayan sa Provincia de Bulacan. Sinasabi na noong 1578 ay sinakop ng mga Augustinians...
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...Organizational Strategies The approaches - description, narration, classification, and evaluation - provide a means of identifying the different sections of your paper, and showing how these sections are related to one another. Using a particular approach to establish the connections between the sections of your essay will make it easier for both you and your reader to predict what comes next and to fit the sections together. Once you have decided on an approach, you will have sections, but you may need to make a further decision about the effective arrangement of those sections. The way you arrange your ideas will show the reader how the sections you have identified fit together; used effectively, it will allow you to demonstrate your sense of what the reader should see as most important, secondary, or incidental. Common methods for the arrangement of sections include: * General to specific * Specific to general * Climax * Increasing Complexity Organizational Strategies * Order of importance – to emphasize a particular point * Logical linkages – helps the flow * Compare and Contrast – lets you see the similarities and differences between two things * Problem/Solution – makes the reader think and be all curious * Sequence – teaches us how stuff is done so you can appreciate the process * Cause and effect – this forces you to think since it’s trying to show you how the causes and effects are related. Use this link for additional...
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...writing is to; Have an Introduction, the controversial issue will need to be introduced, you may want to give two side to the controversies, give your opinion on the ideas, and set up your thesis statement. Go on to the body and make at least two paragraphs, take each of your ideas and put down in separate paragraphs why you like these ideas, give statistics, or get someone who is an expert in the field to give you something to go on to support you words. In the conclusion include your thesis statement. You can back up your statements and ideas and propose the readers take some action. Then add in some sense of closer with a strong ending. I found Exposition or Expository writing are used to help explain, analyze, and make sense of the writing. Informative writing a type of expository writing, give readers facts on subjects, like how something works. There are comparison and contrast papers that are two side of the same coin, when you contrast them to show the different. When you contrast them, it will show you the differences. There are different types of organizational arrangement, to...
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...menyampaikan barang dan jasa yang baik kepada orang-orang. Dengan demikian dibutuhkan pegetahuan yang mendalam mengenai populasi dan situasi sosial untuk mendapatkan insight awal yang penting dan fundamental dalam menghasilkan dan menyampaikan barang dan jasa secara efektif dan efisien. Tidak hanya itu, variable demografi memiliki potensial untuk menyediakan data dan informasi yang mendasar untuk membantu memperkuat bisnis dan prospek masa depan pasar. Variabel demografi seperti struktur umur, pendidikan dan pekerjaan dapat menentukan sifat dasar dari situasi bisnis dan pasar. Secara teoritis, hubungan antara demografi dan aktivitas bisnis dapat dianalisis melalui 2 perspektif : 1. Variabel demografi ditempatkan sebagai variable independen Demographic variables Business activities 2.Variabel demografi ditempatkan sebagai variable independen 1. Business activities Demographic variables Variabel Demografi dapat dilihat dari : Number of population, Population growth and density, Population structures II. Pembahasan PT. Hino Motors Sales Indonesia merupakan ATPM (Agen Tunggal Pemegang Merek) atau main distribution (distributor utama) untuk penjualan kendaraan dan suku cadang produk Hino di Indonesia beserta layanan purna jualnya. PT. HMSI pertama kali terbentuk pada April 2003. Struktur kepemilikan saham saat ini yaitu terdiri dari 40% Hino Motors, Ltd; 40% Indomobil Sukses International...
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...I. Introduction a. Picture your friend just got into a car accident and lost a ton of blood. b. Now imagine someone robbing your house. As your older brother is trying to stop the robber, the robber takes out his gun and shoots him in the chest. c. Imagine your aunt was diagnosed with leukemia, a disease requiring regular transfusion of platelets. d. Not very nice things are they? But unfortunately these things do happen. e. Needless to say you would hope and think that the hospital would have all these resources to help people in need or to prolong their lives. f. And naturally you would want to do something to help out. Well there is one way you can help out and that is by donating blood. g. Transfusions of red blood cells, platelets, and plasma are critical to a patient’s return to good health. h. Some people who require blood are surgical patients, people with bleeding disorders, cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy, and people who have liver and kidney malfunction. II. Body i. American Red Cross states, “Every two seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood. More than 41,000 blood donations are needed every day.” j. The average person donates blood every two months. k. Most of the blood that is donated needs to come from healthy donors. l. Blood cannot be made so it has to come from a generous donor m. The blood supply in the U.S. is very low n. Across America, doctors...
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...p Types of Paragraph and Samples | English 1014-1 | | Define, Classify, Casual (Cause and Effect), Compare and Contrast, Example, Process Analysis(Directional and Informational) | | Marcus K August | 3/27/2012 | | Narration Paragraph Narration paragraphs are most frequently used in fiction and personal statements. As such, they will contain all necessary components of action development: protagonist, setting, goal, obstacle, climax and resolution. Writing a narration paragraph requires, consequently, accounting for sequential order of events and chronology. There are many descriptive elements included in the body of a narration paragraph but, if composed correctly, the paragraph will prioritize action over description. Exposition Paragraph Often times, this kind of a paragraph is used as a component of other types of writing. It’s written in order to clarify or explain problems and phenomena. Writing exposition paragraphs requires strict focus on evidence and objective language. It can contain elements of comparison and contrast, or cause and effect writing as both facilitate accurate exposition of the subject-matter. Definition Paragraph Definition paragraphs are used in order to explain the meaning, origin and function of things. They are used both in academic writing and fiction. To write a definition paragraph, writers should concentrate on the role of its subject in the context of the essay and account for evidence as well as examples accordingly...
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...EXPOSITORY ESSAY LIFE Life is indeed, so short. And, oddly enough, it is much shorter for those who lives they find meaningful while it is too long for those whose lives they find meaningless. Couldn’t it be that life is what meaning we put into it? Now and then, I also ask what meaning has my life really. Often, I feel like I know but at other times, my thinking looks like a useless mental exercise. Life is just so vast, so full of mysteries that before I can put meaning to my life, part of it is gone and the meaning I try putting on it is already partly exhausted. Life, so it seems, is like dry sand slipping through my fingers. When I try to hold on to it very tightly, as if squeezing it, it slips away faster. But when I try to cast it away, it sticks on my hands. Sometimes, I think, to appreciate life best, one has neither to hold on to it tightly nor to let it go so carelessly. The sand in the hourglass is life. It is better to let it flow freely, although not carelessly. How we take life is often dictated by what priorities we have. And life, being so vast, offers everything which can be a priority to us. A student ever so eager to get out of poverty would say, “Life would be meaningless if I don’t finish my studies.” A terribly-in-love woman would say, “Should I lose him now, life would be meaningless to me.” And an alcoholic, trembling with the urge to drink, would be ready to give anything he has, even his...
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...Using Narrative Text in the Secondary Classroom Once upon a time, in a school, very much like your own, American History and all its contents were studied alongside tales of triumph, and defeat. In this history class, the students supplemented curriculum delivered through lectures and textbooks, with materials from sources such as diary entries, editorials, and historical fiction. This is an example of how narrative text can coexist with expository information found in content area classrooms in today's high schools. While the need for expository text is vital to the success of a student to understand the content (i.e., Social Studies) curriculum, narrative literature and various other texts are a great way to supplement the learner with information from which they can draw a better understanding of the state standards. Explained below is a definition of narrative literature, advantages and disadvantages of using narrative text in the high school Social Studies classroom, and five possible uses for using narrative texts in the high school classroom. Narrative Literature Narrative literature can be both fiction such as novels, as well as non-fictional works such as memoirs (Burke). Often, narrative literature includes many of the following: a plot, character, problems, and themes. In fictional work, one generally finds a setting, with a beginning, a reaction, and an ending (Roe, Stoodt-Hill, & P. C. Burns, 2004). Narrative literature can, and does exist on its own in...
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