The expository text or explanatory text: structures

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The expository text (or explanatory text)
structures

• Description, enumerative or listing
• Sequence
• Comparison and contrast
• Cause and effect
• Problem and solution

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STRUCTURES

• Description, enumerative or listing
• includes listing connected information, outlining
  a series of steps, or placing ideas in a
  hierarchy

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Structures

• Sequence
• when a series of events leads up to a conclusion,
  which means that these events are not a mere
  succession, rather they are organized

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Structures

• Comparison and contrast
• when you describe how two or more events,
  places, characters, or other ideas are similar
  and/or different in several ways

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Structures

• Cause and effect
• reasons why an event occurred, or several
  effects from one cause

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Structures

• Problem and solution
• this technique is used to identify the problem,
  give possible solutions with possible results and
  finally, to present the solution that was chosen