Exposition is the part of a story that establishes the background and provides important information about characters, setting, and plot.

Writing an Exposition

1. Writing an Exposition

2. Most Essential Learning Competency: Write an exposition or discussion on a familiar issue to include key structural elements and language features.

3. What is expository Text??? presents or provides information about a particular topic or issue. some called informational writing where the writer provides facts on a given topic in a way that is educational and purposeful. may also include providing description, citing reasons, presenting explanation, and enumerating steps of a specific process.

4. NARRATIVE TEXT VS EXPOSITORY TEXT tells a story uses a emotion in presenting facts. does not tell a story does not use emotion. fact-based educates the reader by presenting fact based on reliable sources. clear, concise and organized.

5. Different Purposes Expository text – to inform Narrative text - to entertain Argumentative text – to persuade

6. Key Structural Elements in an Exposition 1. Clear and Concise Thesis Statement -usually presented in the initial paragraph the thesis introduces the main topic or idea and provides the overall direction for the best.

7. 2. Clear transitions - the use of clear and proper transition will glue the introduction, the body, and conclusion together. - without effective use of transitions, the exposition may seen like a disjoined collection of sentences.

8. 3. A body that contains evidence and support - while most people might think of an expository text like an essay as something that can be written even without due research and preparation the use of supporting evidence like example and explanation forms a huge part of a fact based expository text.

9. Structure and Pattern of Idea Development While most expository essays typically follows the introduction, body, conclusion format, other forms and examples and exposition can take other shapes and patterns depending on how the write intends to present his or her ideas. Expository texts typically follow one of the following structure or patterns of idea development.

10. cause and effect comparison and contrast description problem and solving sequences

11. Cause and Effect present the information by explaining how or why a certain event or occurrence happened (cause) and what resulted from that particular cause of occurrence (effect).

12. 2. Comparison and contrast The writer present the information by providing details as to how things, concepts, or ideas are alike or different. 3. Description In this structure, the topic is presented by proving description about its features, and examples.

13. 4. Problem and Solution The writer may present a problem and provide one or more solution to the said problem. 5. Sequence information may be presented in a way that follows numerical or chronological sequence either explicitly or implicitly.

14. Cause and Effect Compare and Contrast Description Problem and Solution Sequence Because Consequently Since But On the other hand As well as For example For instance Since Consequently First Second Third Therefore As a result Thus Similar to Different from However To illustrate Such as A solution Therefore Before After Finally For this reason This led to Due to In contrast Although In the same way Including Like So that In order to Then Next Previously