Characteristics Of Expository Essays

Characteristics Of Expository Essays

Characteristics of Expository Essays

Characteristics of Expository Essays

The two audio visual essays I watched were “Sticky Rice in Laos” and “Wayne Thiebaud: Beyond the Cakes.”  
Sticky rice in Laos was presented in an expository format; examples, evidence, and facts supported the topic. The essay was presented also in a nonbiased manner. Interviews with local Laos people speaking on the everyday use of sticky rice and the reasons that they chose sticky rice over white rice as their main substance. There was no opinions made about which type of rice was better, there were only facts about why they use it and how often they use it.
Wayne Thiebaud: Beyond the Cakes was presented in a character study essay format. The Essay focused on a specific person of interest Wayne Thiebaud. Although this was a character study, they also provided facts about his paintings and what allowed him to catapult into the eyes of America with his pastry paintings putting this in expository essay form.
Concerning organization of information in expository essay writing there are four main ways to create from: Topic, Time Order, Space Order, and the Informative process. To distinguishes between them you can put them in who, when, where, what categories. Who the essay is a bout (topic) when this happened (Time Order) where did it happen (Space Order) and what happen (Informative-Process). These are ways to create your expository essay. In regard to the above two essays you can find that “Sticky Rice in Laos” was created from the topic method. The story was about the use of a certain type of rice (sticky rice) in the country of Laos. The essay revolved around someone and something. This way of organization makes reading an essay easy to follow because the topic is stated from the beginning and everything after you can expect to stay the course of the topic. “Wayne Thiebaud: Beyond the Cakes” was created in a Time Order taking you through his art from the 1960 – 2002 and showing...