Characteristics Of Expository Essays

Characteristics of Expository Essays
English 101
Mary Keever

• Address the following points about the two essays you read:
The essays I read were “Setting the Table” and “A Soul as Free as the Air” About Lucy Stone.

o What characteristics make these essays expository?
The essays I have read show many facts and evidence to support their topics. The information was presented in a fair and non-biased manner. The facts given were clearly used to support a concept in "Setting the Table," and the history of Lucy Stones life used in “A Soul as Free as the Air” was to support facts.

o Identify the type of organization each author used to develop the essay: topic, time order, space order, or informative process.
The type of organization used for "Setting the Table" was the informative process. An expository essay developed by the informative process is a "how to" essay. This essay was wrote in a step-by-step process giving information in order, describing how to set the table.

Time Order was used as the type of organization in the essay "A Soul as Free as the Air." This expository essay uses specific dates and chronological organization of information from one period to another. This type of organization arranges information according to date or specific time.

o Why do you think each author chose that type of organization for his or her
essay? In what ways does this organizational choice make the essay effective?
I believe that the informative process was the best way to describe and deliver information in the essay "Setting the Table." I believe that the time order organization process was chosen by the author because there was information that needed to be given from different times.

What effect might the author have achieved with another type of organization or
another type of expository essay?
I think either time order or informative process could have been used for either of the essays. Using the time order for "Setting the Table" would have...