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EXPOSITORY TEXTS: STRUCTURE AND CHARACTERISTICS
Types of texts
: narrative, descriptive, argumentative, expository, dialogic
Expository text
: aims at clarifying and providing information and extending the addressee's knowledge of a topic
Characteristics of expository texts
: use of purpose clauses
Thematic progression
: theme and rheme. Topics and subtopics. Inductive (thesis statement in final position) and deductive paragraphs (thesis statement in initial position)
Supra-linguistic elements
: hierarchical organization of information. Typographical variations
Shared knowledge
: sense of audience
Structure of expository texts
: logical relationships. Reasoning process
Development
: paragraphs (thematic unity). Theme and rheme. Logical progression of information
Conclusion
: summary. Linked to introduction
Introduction
: presents the topic
Methods of expository analysis
Example
Vividness
: concrete detail
Relevance
: connection between the concept and the example
Comparison and contrast
Comparison: draws attention to similarities
Contrast: emphasises differences
Classification and division
Classification:from the particular to the general
Division: from a general class to particular parts
Cause and effect
Cause focuses on the how or why
Effect focuses on the result or consequence
Definition
: precise identification of an object
Logical definition
: equation
Rhetorical definition
: extended definition
Process or function
: causal analysis to answer the why of things
Instructive texts
: expository texts that present information in a linear way (series of informative items which possess equal relevance and are organized in temporal succession. Illocutionary force is to teach + perlocutionary force. Future tense, imperatives, second or third person