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WRITING WORKSHOP
Expository Writing: Writing to Inform
Learning Targets
• Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.
• Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
• Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
• Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing your own clearly.
Writing an Expository Essay
In this writing workshop, you will practice writing an informational text in the expository mode. Writers use the expository mode to communicate information, define a topic, instruct about a process, explain something, or clarify ideas. Expository writing relies on facts rather than on emotional appeals.
As you learn about expository writing, you will work with your teacher and your classmates to construct two model expository essays. You will then use these models to write your own expository essay that achieves the following:
• Presents effective introductory and concluding paragraphs.
• Contains a clearly stated purpose or controlling idea.
• Is logically organized with appropriate facts and details.
• Includes no extraneous information or inconsistencies.
• Accurately synthesizes ideas from several sources.
• Uses a variety of rhetorical devices and sentence structures. • Uses transitions to create coherence.
ACTIVITY 1
Discovering Elements of a Multi-Paragraph Expository Essay
Before Reading
1. Quickwrite: What do you know about expository writing? How would an informative essay fit in the expository writing mode?
2. The goal of an informational expository essay is to inform your readers about a specific topic. What topics are you familiar enough with that you could explain them to others in a detailed manner? List some of these topics in the margin.
3. Brainstorm how you might organize an informational expository essay.
LEARNING STRATEGIES Quickwrite, Marking the Text, Graphic Organizer, Think-Pair-Share, Brainstorming, Webbing, Outlining, Think Aloud, Drafting, Sharing and Responding
ACADEMIC VOCABULARY
The word mode refers
to a style of writing. Narrative, expository,
and argumentative (persuasive) are examples of different writing modes. Each mode has different requirements.
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