Expository (expose) EssayAn Expository essay is a genre of essay that seeks to explore AND explain an idea, concept or investigate/extrapolate on questions utilizing evidence, from a text or otherwise, to do so. This type of essay is essential as we use it in our daily lives in numerous different fashions such as when an accident occurs at work and we have to explain/document it, when the news organizations tells you a story that may be leaving information out, or in everyday conversations with friends and families that talk about situations they are experiencing where idea don’t quite connect. We also use the principles of this essay when we are asked to examine information closely, offer evaluations as responses, and when formulating the basic tenets of argument. While the Analysis Essay taught the merits of breaking down, Expository essays are the crux of most of the other argumentative types because the methods you take to explain something is the exact goal of an essay: to spread the information and to persuade others through your exploration. This genre incorporates the principles of the analysis process since the subject matter you are discussing has a focus that you have provided (an assertive thesis), and yet the conventions allow for you to explore it in differing modes. As such, you are being tasked with writing an expository essay “exposing”one of the topics below. You are expected to make assertions within this essay which means you can include opinionated ideas in as long as they do not translate into where you personally fall (in other words, you are asserting for the cause/concept you are exploring, not to let the audience know what you, personally, believe). If the subjects below does not engage you and you wish to write on something else, you MUST clear it with me before you begin writing and it MUST fall somewhere within the concepts brought forth from our Star Wars booka)
What is evil? Much of our conversations in various areas seems to bring up this concept a lot, but we don’t seem to understand, truly, what “evil” actually is. We can describe it, we can characterize it, we notice it and claim to observe it, but each time we do any of these various things we seem to differ or find silver linings within evil actions (war=evil, less population=more resources for us all?). Write an expository essay in which you explore the concept of evil; make sure to define what evil is, of course, and seek out within your essay what seems to constitute evil (and what does not), how people know what is evil, and why evil is relative to individual opinion.
-Following MLA format including Works Cited -Must use at least 2 different sources of information to support your exposition. -Have relatively little errors in GUMPS (Grammar, Usage, Mechanics, Punctuation and Spelling)-Have an introduction, conclusion and a thesis statement that is stated explicitly and is working. Make sure the intro follows what is expected of an introduction (subject matter, connection to the ideas). Finish with a societal impact or mental insight. -Be 4-5 FULL pages in length-Creative and/or informative title-Demonstrate awareness of audience as you write. Demonstrate appropriate usage of logos, pathos and ethos throughout your exploration. -Avoid 1st and 2nd person when writing this essay at all times.-Sentences must be correct, varied, and demonstrate appropriate control of structure, organization and flow. Be aware of transitory statements to connect ideas.-Genre and stylistic requirements are followed and essay is organized and coherent. Essay option choice and delivery does not lose traction or focus.-Logic must be qualified and substantiated without committing illogical statements and illogical lines of reasoning.
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