Expository Essay Topics

You ever hear someone say they have swagger? A lot of times people's swagger is determined from their style. For example, everyone has a specific style of fashion. If you put on some cargo shorts with a tank top and slides you're probably not going to a job interview. Just like anything else, writing has different expressions. Writingis a form of communication; the person is writing to inform, persuade, describe, or tell a story. There are four main types of writing styles, expository, persuasive, descriptive, and narrative. We then choose what we want to read according to our interest in each category. Let's look at expository writing. Expository writing is usually developed around one topic and is used to describe or inform you...show more content...

Its name might as well give it away. Think of a closing argument in a court case being presented to a jury. Each party's counsel is presenting a persuasive writing in the form of a speech. In this type of writing the writer uses choice words in a cohesive manner in order to "sway" or persuade the reader. You will most commonly come across this type of writing in advertisement. With that being said, persuasive writing is all around us. This type of communication may consist of the writer's opinions, but the best form also includes facts to back up his or her statements. With attempts to get consumers to purchase specific products, we see persuasive writings all around us in today's world. "The battlefield had a cold malevolent air to it, the wind howling past you in every which way, as if trying to express its own confusion at the sudden seize–fire. I, myself, was confused. One minute the bullets were raining holy hell down on us in a never–ending bombardment, and the next, nothing." An anonymous soldier gives detailed picture of a battlefield scene. Descriptive writing, often used to portray a vivid, detailed experience, person, place, or thing, is third of the writing styles. This style of writing requires strong observation skills to convey the writer's point of view. In personal stories, you tend to see a lot of descriptive writing because it's the writer's story. He or she was there and can give several small

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Expository Essay Debate

Kefentse Myers

Mathe Womeldorph

Honors Literature

October 20, 2017

Expository Essay Debate

Football is one of the most played sports in America.Most people know what football because it is played in schools, parks and even outside homes.Football can be played on a competitive level when you reach elementary school and can continue throughout college.Even after college, if you are one of the best players you can play in the NFL and earn a lot of money.They only question is, why should you get paid to play football only when you become a professional.In this essay I will be debating on whether college athletes should get paid to play sports while they are in college.

The main debaters for this debate include Joe Nocera, Andy Schwarz ,Christine Brennan and Len Elmore.Some of them feel that college students should get paid and the other debaters feel they should not.Here is what the person that wanted college students to get paid said.College sprots makes millions of dollars in revenue for their schools and television shows.Even the coaches are getting paid for coaching but without the athletes there would no games.People that play sports in college should get payed

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Teens today are bombarded with multiple types of external and internal conflicts. AIDS and other STD's impact the way they live externally; depression and suicide can govern their internal lives. However, religious tolerance grabs at both their internal and external lives. The biased media always attempts to push teens' beliefs one way or another, yet it is the choice of the individual to which counts in the end. ApologeticsIndex.org defines religious tolerance as "Acknowledging and supporting that individuals have the right and freedom to their own beliefs and related legitimate practices, without necessarily validating those beliefs or practices." It also defines religious intolerance as "a)

Refusing to acknowledge and support the right...show more content...

The first is where there is an extreme reluctance to change (e.g. Islam in the Middle East). The other comes in a form where change has happened all too rapidly. For example, secular countries like America and others in Europe have gone from origins inreligion, to actually putting down religion (mainly through the media; Bernard Goldberg, Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News). Saying that religious intolerance is a problem is a massive understatement and the numbers certainly do not lie.

In a study by the University of North Carolina, a poll was taken of seniors in high school about organized religion. An astonishing one third of seniors felt alienated by organized religion. Of these numbers, half the students felt hostile towards organized religion and another half felt no emotions towards it. One third is not a majority, but a whole third of the adult population is an alarming number. In this trend, it is to be expected that nearly 50% of youth will feel threatened by organized religion in little more than a decade (The Empty Church : Does Organized Religion Matter Anymore by Thomas C. Reeves). In a Youth Gallup Poll (ages 13–17), 40% of youth who are identified as "non–churchgoers" agree that "most Muslims around the world are accepting of other religions." This number compares to only 27% of "churchgoers" who believe Muslims are religiously tolerant. This is a stark contrast. Are

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The Beauty of the black Widow

Gordon Grice is fascinated, maybe obsessed with the black widow. He begins provocatively " I hunt black widows. I capture it. I have found them in discarded wheels and tires and under railroads tires. I have found them in house foundations and cellars...I have found them I hospitals and in the den of the rattlesnake.... (176) In this quote Grice start with first person in place and with the repetition of "I" so that the reader can get the attention into it. Grice's purpose in the " Black widow" essay is to inform the audience about the widow's life style. He shows inspiration, fascination, respect and love for widows. He furthers his purpose by using rhetorical strategies throughout his text....show more content...

Here in this quote he is informing the audience that widows are black pearls for him. He feels inspiration, fascination, respect and love for widows that he compares them to such expensive precious and exquisite jewels. He also shows the audience that we should feel the same for widows that instead of been afraid ad kill widows, we should take care of them, gave them love as if they were humans. In this Get

Reflection Of Expository Writing

Erwyn Suruy

December 9, 2017

Eng 111

Reflective Essay

I have been taking Expository Writing for 4 months. I have found that I need to be able to communicate myself in writing. I must relay exactly what I'm trying to put forth to others and convey the right message of understanding. I must be able to explain myself, negotiate, and work in teams. My language skills can be worked on and improved. I need to be able to pick up the language of whatever environment I'm in whether it be at work or school, or in society. Since everyone does not have the same background, learning how to write the written word is important in any environment. I have learned how to write and express myself, how to think for myself, and how to find answers to things I do not know. Most important I have learned how to believe in mywriting. I was very hesitant in taking this English class, I have not taken an English class in many years. When I took the placement test for reading and English, I tested out of all categories. I was proud of myself for that feat. When I found I was going to have to take a college level English class, I avoided it at all costs. Too much pressure. However, I have learned about the Rhetorical Essay was to understand how an author writes and not focus on what the content is. Knowing the explanation of what techniques and author uses to make their point come across to the intended audience. I learned about Argumentative Research Paper is to debate both sides of an issue. The intent is to be unbiased and state the facts on either side. I learned about Public Piece with Presentation is meant to deliver an effective presentation to engage your audience. Your audience listens to not only what you are saying but your visual engagement in the topic being presented. Also, the point of the class is to be able to work with others to achieve a desired outcome or task. To know that I can work with others in a cohesive environment to draw on everyone's input and views. This will assist me in the real work of life and assist in handling many types of people and myself in communicating. I have never been a good writer; however, I have learned that communication is not the same when writing. Having a conversation about aliens

Thesis Statement For Mental Health

Expository Method Used:

The Expository Method used for the topic to sentence outline is 'Analysis by Division.' This method breaks down the main idea into smaller parts that work together to make one central point. Additionally, the 'Analysis by Division' method is useful for structuring the topic sentences for writing the essay. Topic to Sentence Outline

Topic: Mentalhealth is an increasingly vital part of general wellness in today's fast–paced world. (Narrowed Topic): Characteristics of a mentally healthy individual.

Thesis Statement: A mentally healthy individual has the characteristics of emotional intelligence and spiritual consciousness, intellectual and social wellness.

Emotional Intelligence is considered one of the defining characteristics of a mentally healthy...show more content... Equally important to the characteristics of a mentally healthy individual, in today's fast–paced world, is the psychological health of the brain, the genetic, biological and environmental factors that play an integral role in general wellness. Many prominent theorists have argued that perceptions of the self, the world, and the future are essential for mental health. Yet much research evidence suggests that overly positive self–evaluations, exaggerated perceptions of control or mastery, and unrealistic optimism are characteristics of normal human thought. Moreover, these illusions seem to promote other criteria of mental health, including, the ability to care about others, be happy or contented, and to engage in productive and creative work. (Taylor & Brown 1988,

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Military Deployment Research Paper

Expository Essay Topic: How does deployment affect the family and loved ones of military servicemen? Military servicemen and their families face huge challenges when soldiers are deployed. There are three major areas deployment can cause deterioration in a servicemen's family, psychologically, financially, and stability. Psychological trauma, stress. According to Burton et al., (2009) "stress has been shown to be almost twice as high in spouses of deployed military personnel when compared to a non–deployed group." Not only do the spouses suffer, their children also show adverse signs when a parent is deployed. A sample of approximately 170,000 U.S. children under the age of 2 found that overall outpatient visits increased by7% and

Kirk Zimmer Expository Writing Rough Draft

Everything Wrong With School In 10 Minutes or Less!

When I was twelve, I had no appreciation for school. I saw it as nothing more as a glorified daycare center with all the rules and regulations specifically designed to restrict as much fun as possible. Then one day in the ninth grade, I had a revelation: what if school was actually meant to build me up with knowledge and facts and not just waste my time? This was the foundation I needed to get me through the next four years.

Whenever I was bored, I would remind myself that I 'd never have a "free" education like this again. I adapted particularly well to this system of tests, quizzes, and science labs but I could never understand the hang up some people had with it. School was basic and easy and all it seemed to require was consistency an+d proper scheduling. I looked at people who couldn 't understand US History or Geometry and I thought they were dumb. It wasn 't until much later with much more reflection that I came to conclude there 's a difference between how you score on the SATs and how smart you actually are. Education isn 't necessarily a direct line to becoming intelligent and knowledgeable; education is nothing more than an institution designed to equip people with subsets of specialized processing methodologies, algorithms, and a fair bit of esoteric trivia. Furthermore, the current educational system in place is inefficient because of its rigid nature. The current

Expository Essay

Remembering back we had just come out of the 1950's with straight lace kids to a world of kids who thought something was wrong with America, rock ' n roll, rebellion. Those were turbulent times for families with gangs and turf wars. Parents would lead and guide their kids into careers particularly the medical field as doctors, nurses or lawyers. In some way those were simple times back then, guiding them and being with them every step of the way, until they were in their perspective fields and, jobs.

Supporting Point#1 – (subtopic 1): Career /psychology, counseling– Study.com Counseling 101 chpt.1 lesson.03

a.In the early 1960 and or before this date the nation was plagued with the hippy cultural, the sexual revolution, psychedelic lights pills, pcp, heroin, cocaine and cannabis weed ( not all at the same time some reared its heads sooner than others), and the civil rights movement. This brought about an explosion of psychologist and counseling psychiatrist. Davis, Anthony, Brown (1975) Therapeutic approaches to children in residential treatment: Changes from the mid–1950s to the mid–1970s.

b.At this time in history, vocational counseling was also on the scene led by Frank Parsons which helped guide people to the right careers based on their interests and abilities. With this graduation would soon became apparent, the reality of them setting up businesses in psychiatry,

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The Importance Of Expository Reading

Expository text is a very important form of reading material that is used to present content in different ways. Starting as early as kindergarten, children should be able to identify the main topic, ask and answer questions, and describe connections between two different pieces of information (Roehling, Hebert, Nelson, Bohaty, 2017). Teachers have problems with studentsreading expository text. It is sometimes more difficult to read than just regular story reading. Hebert, Bohaty, Nelson, and Brown conducted a meta–analysis on text structure instruction, concluding that it was an effective way to improve expository reading comprehension (Roehling, Hebert, Nelson, Bohaty, 2017). Different strategies were developed to help with understanding expository reading comprehension. Teachers play a big role in helping the students understand. They have to begin with clear learning objectives that outlines the skills teachers want their students to demonstrate by the end of the instruction (Roehling, Hebert, Nelson, Bohaty, 2017). Once the teacher decides on the learning objective, they can plan specific instructional strategies to help students achieve the objectives. If there is a clear goal from the teacher, things will be easier on the students. Identification strategies is a good start in recognizing the structure of an expository text. There are two possible goals of identification strategies: to recognize a single text structure or to discriminate among several possible text

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Jusayan, Janine AnnJune 20, 2009 M0522Prof. Ramil Mondejar1. Guidelines for effective expository writing * STEP ONE: SELECTING A TOPIC If your professor assigns you a specific topic to write about, then this step is completed before you even begin. However, often the teacher will allow students to choose their own essay topic, so it is important to be able to choose effectively. This is also true is the professor proposed a broad topic, but demands that you write about a particular facet of that larger subject. Whenever choosing an expository essay topic, it is important to narrow down your choice so that it is appropriate to the essay length requirements. Conversely, if the professor wants an especially ...show more content...

2. Paragraphs have paragraph developers which present various examples or details. 3. Paragraphs have viewpoint or content modulators which provide a smooth transition between the sentences. 4. Paragraphs have paragraph terminators which conclude the ideas. 5. Not all paragraphs must have all of these elements, but most contain a combination of these four types. Details: The supporting ideas themselves may be further supported by facts, details, or statistics. In a longer paragraph the first supporting idea might be further supported by giving examples of such paragraph introducers. Logical Order: The ideas in the paragraph must be presented in logical order. In our example, the ideas are introduced chronologically as they would be used in a paragraph. It would not be logical to first write about the paragraph terminators when those conclude the paragraph. Logical Connectors: To indicate this progression of ideas and to provide an orderly connection between the ideas (coherence), writers use logical connecting words, also called "transition" words. These words do not only help the flow of the words, but they also indicate how the ideas in the paragraph are connected (chronological, causal, etc.) Concluding Sentence: A paragraph may have a concluding sentence but it doesn't have to. A concluding sentence expresses the main idea one more time, only in different words. Unity and Coherence: When a Get more content

Expository Essay: Rough Draft Everyone can feel, just like you and I, but there's one important question that lingers through the air. Should we really be accepting of other people? To answer the question, yes! Although this does speak from opinion, it's essential to be accepting of others. It's understandable to find laboriousness when looking through others, but we need to remember the reasons why it's imperative. To start off, we're all the same! We're all people, but sometimes, we seem to overlook that part of us. We all process the same way, and I feel as if that's a good enough reason to find acceptance. Something else to remember is that we all have emotions. When we don't accept eachother for who we are, our emotions can get Get

Expository Essay On Earthquake

Write an informative process analysis about another dramatic act of nature; for example, an earthquake, tornado, tsunami, or hurricane. Maninderdeep Singh Grant MacEwan university

23 – OCT– 2017

Author Note

This paper was prepared for English 111, taught by Professor Valentyna Kennedy

Abstract

There are a lot of disasters, but earthquake is the worst out of all. In this Research we can find out how an earthquake happens, the main reasons of why it happens and measures how a person can get out of such a situation. Earthquakes are the shock waves which happen for approximately half a minute. Taking references from books and journals it can be seen what a person should do during an earthquake and how this natural calamity can be measured and steps that government takes to find out where will this disaster show its power the next time.

Expository essay on earthquake

Earthquake is a Trembling or shaking alteration ofearth's surface. It is a sudden brutal shaking of the earth's surface occurring naturally and cause great massacre with its strong movements in the earth's crust or action of volcano. It is naturally occurring disturbance which can be characterize as an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the ground.it originate anytime inside the earth's crust and push a bulk of rock to slip rapidly. A huge amount of energy gets released and travel through rocks and waves, which cause tremors and trembling of

A liberal arts education is one that, by definition, focuses not on one specific subject, but rather prepares its student by giving them knowledge in many areas and developing the student's critical thinking that will allow them to adapt to an ever–changing world. Naturally, this means students at a university that employs a liberal artseducation take classes outside their major. Students of the humanities or social sciences must enroll in courses of mathematics and natural sciences, and while many find no joy in such requirements, they better the individual and are helpful in everyday life, as well as in larger issues. As Crane and Chiles so eloquently write, specifically of science, "Science matters at a liberal–arts university because the problems facing our global community will not be solved by scientists alone." Mathematics as a subject acts in a similar way, giving skills to students, non–mathematics majors included, to help in their everyday lives or potentially to help the world....show more content...

To do that, Chopp argues that "What you have to do is to learn the very tools of learning itself. The liberal arts are...the gold standard for that" (qtd. in Goral). Students, particularly those in the humanities and social sciences, are thus offered different methods of learning when classes stretch beyond their major. As is an essential part of a liberal arts education, this breadth of knowledge enhances the critical and intellectual thinking of students that otherwise might not have had the opportunity to do so. The creativity and pursuit of knowledge encouraged by non–STEM majors has much to offer to solve the problems of the world, and a basic understanding of mathematics and sciences means that these problems seem much more understandable, their solutions more

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Even though expository essays and persuasive essays both have research and a thesis statement, they are different in the way that expository explains while persuasive argues. The expository writer provides clarifying information about a topic while the persuasive writer presents an argument. The purpose of an expository essay is to explain to the reader your position without trying to get the reader to choose your side. In a persuasive essay you write to persuade the reader to choose an argument side. They are similar in the way on how they are structured they both require a thesis and a lot of research. A topic that could be developed using persuasivewriting could be arguing why a person shouldn't litter. This topic has two sides that could

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Name: Ashley Alcaraz Reyes

Course: UNV 104

Date: 13 May 2018

Instructor: Jolene Daw Annotated Reference List

Directions:

Refer back to your Topic 1 Brainstorming and Beginning Research worksheet for your peer–reviewed articles to complete this worksheet (unless you have found more relevant articles; then use those that are the most relevant for your topic).

From the Topic 1 Brainstorming and BeginningResearch worksheet choose three of the five peer–reviewed articles that you think will best support the sub–topic points you want to cover in your Expository Essay.

Read the articles, and in your own words fill in each table below by answering the following questions for each different article:

What was the main point/argument of this article?...show more content...

P., Larson, J. C., & Armstrong, L. M. (2017). Facilitating successful reintegration: Attending to the needs of military families. American Journal Of Orthopsychiatry, 87(2), 176–184. doi:10.1037/ort0000201

Provide a 100–150 word summary of your article by answering the following questions:

What was the main point/argument of this article?

What did the author(s) conclude?

How did this article support your topic?

What questions or new ideas did this article leave you with?

The main point of this article is about service members deployed specifically to Iraq and Afghanistan with back to back deployments and the stress factors that it produces on the families and the service members themselves.

The authors concluded that the shorter that dwell time, the harder it is for military families to maintain a stable relationship. The authors also provided helpful information on family support and how stress factors can be reduced when military families come across deployment. This article supports my topic because it provides way to cope with family separation and stress which are psychological effects of deployment. This article left me wondering what other ways military families could cope with psychological effects of deployment aside from those already

Identity Expository Essay My life is like a massive tangle of webs all leading to the bug caught in the middle, me! I have believed for quite some time that my identity was a part of who I was, an unchangeable, connected, jumbled mass of my ideals and preferences. However, after speculation on this topic, and a deep and intimate search within my mind and soul, I have realized it is much, much more. I have searched through my community, my personal life, and the world around me to find answers to this deep and burning question. Furthermore, I have consulted the knowledge of books like The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian to continue my search. Through this process, I have begun to see that maybe I am quite a lot like this character Junior, who found what life meant for him in terms of his identity. For I have begun to understand the full complexities of my actions and my world that have shaped the woman I am today. "There can be no keener revelation of a society 's soul than the way in which it treats its children." – Nelson Mandela Society is the grounding of most children 's beliefs and ideas about how they should act and who they are. Despite my relatively secluded upbringing, society has been constantly and strongly affecting the innocent view of my identity. I grew up in suburban Minneapolis with my family of 10. I know, it 's a lot of people, but it beats having no friends as a kid. Having so many siblings has made it really easy to interact with new

Effective Parenting Techniques and their Direct Influence on Child Life Success

COM150 Effective Essay Writing

December 8, 2013

Throughout history, families represent the primary setting in which most children's lives are formed and developed; however, parenting beliefs and practices have evolved and drastically changed. Most parents expressed the view that parenting had changed substantially when compared with parenting 20 years ago. Degree of parental responsibility and pressure on parents as having increased while a decrease in levels of parental control has heightened. Enjoyment of the parental role is associated with the sense of fulfillment and achievement parents experience as a result of the healthy and thriving...show more content...

"1981 data indicated that just about half of all children with a father living in a different place see that father less than once a month or had not seen him at all in the past year" (Seltzer and Bianchi, 1988). There is some evidence, that the measure of contact, though it still is low, may have increased in recent years (Kelly, 1993; Furstenberg and Harris, 1992). Some have also noted that the rate at which contact decreases while it may be smaller, the older the child, the more disruptive and detrimental it can be (Furstenberg and Harris, 1992). Such an outline would make sense that fathers of older children who have had a longer time to develop strong relationships and to have made considerable emotional and financial investment in their children's wellbeing; as a result, would be more unwilling to sever the relationship. Even so, the number of children with moderate or no contact with their non–residential parent is quite large, and rising at a modest to rapid rate. Remarriage does not usually advance issues for children, despite the potential gains from both improved economic conditions and the company of an extra adult to help with the vast amounts of parenting tasks. However, oversimplified findings lead to embellishment through proponents of marriage proposals and disbelief from critics. If the

Stressed, left eye twitching, shouting at inanimate objects? Eighty three percent of all Canadian drivers find peak hour traffic more stressful than work. That means sitting in traffic is worse than sitting through your boss's PowerPoint presentation. Everybody has their own personal traffic nightmare, whether it's a massive backup, or perhaps, those screaming kids in the back. However, there is a way to calm your seething road rage and keep cool through the frustrating gridlock. If you find yourself in one of these situations the first thing to do in order to calm yourself down is to embrace the fact that you are stuck in a gridlock. You are going to be there for a while, you might as well have a good time. The second thing you do...show more content...

Keep the vehicle at a comfortable temperature. Studies have shown that you are much more irritable when you are warm, so crank up the A/C to keep your body temperature at a comforting level. Make sure you have plenty of gas when you set out, so that you're not actually worried about running out of gas by using the air conditioner. In milder weather keep windows open to get fresh air which is soothing. Wear comfortable shoes and clothing while driving. Avoid wearing clothes which are too tight and restrictive. Keep a pair of shoes in the car for driving through traffic and make sure to change into those as soon as you start out driving. Opt for a seat cushion or back rest to further make yourself more relaxed during traffic periods throughout the day. Joe Brown, editor in chief of tech blog Gizmodo, indicates that the best thing to do during a traffic jam is to stay in the slow lane, because if you are trying to hurry, you are never going to win. So stay in the right lane, let everybody else pass you, let everybody else stress out , just take your time and make a great day of it. How you think can have a profound effect on your emotional and physical well–being. Each time you think a negative thought about yourself, your body reacts as if it were in the throes

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