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Why exposition? Why exposition? Let’s think about the type of writing that most of us encounter in our daily lives. When you pick up and read a non-fiction book, magazines, or newspaper article, the author uses expository writing to inform you, the reader, about the topic. At school, students are required to submit school exams […]

A CENTURY OF CHANGE — WORDS MODIFIED BY TIME What a century this has been. A century that took us from horseback to fuel-injected horsepower, from gaslights to sodium-vapor streetlights, from crystal radios to digital television, from compasses to global positioning satellites, from wood stoves to microwave ovens, from Victrolas to DVD players, from poultices

What Happened to the News? When television news started out, back in the 1950s, it occupied less than a thirty-minute slot. Ten or fifteen minutes would be granted to local stations for their news, and then the networks would say all there was to say about national and world news in the remaining fifteen to

EXAMPLE AS A METHOD OF DEVELOPMENT One of most impressive forms of argument (which is not really an argument at all) is to use examples of whatever it is we’re talking about. It is also one of the most common forms of discourse and we use it constantly, even in the most informal discussions. Ask

MY WATCH: An Instructive Little Tale by MARK TWAIN [From “Sketches New and Old”, Copyright 1903, Samuel Clemens. This text is placed in the Public Domain (Jun 1993, #16).] (Written about 1870.) My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining, and without breaking any part of its machinery or stopping. I

Using Description and Example Instructions: Review this information to give you a sense of using description as a method of development.   Writing a Narrative composition appeals to one of humankind’s basic instincts, the impulse to share stories. Sometimes the aim of the story-teller is simply to entertain, to provide a moment of escape from

The Great Gatsby: A Tainted American Dream F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby portrays the destructive realities of the American dream for its hero and the other characters as well. The American dream is often stated by the idea that success and wealth can be achieved by anyone, given the right opportunity, who is willing

How professors will look at the technical aspects of a formal exposition paper: These criteria come from Modules, Evaluation Criteria. 1. Elements of Organization I. Opening paragraph: It needs both a thesis statement and an organizing idea. It should end with a statement of significance. _____Thesis _____Organizing Idea _____Statement of Significance V. Closing paragraph: It

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Wealthtitle does not hint at the thesis… F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby brings to light the tragic corruption of the American dream through the pursuit of pleasure and wealth at any cost. The American dream was an idea that started with our founding fathers when they wrote the

Gatsby and the Subjective American Dream F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby can be seen as a multi-perspective exploration of he American ream with varying ideas of what that dream can mean. this thesis lacks clarity about the values of the thesis in terms of the American dream and the novel…the novel is about tragedy,