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Expository and Persuasive Writing Guide

The document outlines the steps for writing different types of texts, including expository essays, personal recounts, and persuasive texts. It provides guidance on limiting topics, determining audiences, brainstorming, structuring essays, and crafting introductions and conclusions. Key elements include the use of supporting details, various writing techniques, and the importance of revision.

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Expository and Persuasive Writing Guide

The document outlines the steps for writing different types of texts, including expository essays, personal recounts, and persuasive texts. It provides guidance on limiting topics, determining audiences, brainstorming, structuring essays, and crafting introductions and conclusions. Key elements include the use of supporting details, various writing techniques, and the importance of revision.

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A.

Limit our topic


B. Determine our audience
C. Identify our main idea
D. Brainstorm for information
E. Outline the info
F. Write our texts
The first way the first suggestion in limiting your topic
1. Ask questions
2. Letter-representation
3. Brainstorm
4. Clustering
Ways to open or do intros:
1. Unusual details
2. Strong statement
3. Quotation
4. Anecdote
5. Statistic or fact
6. Question
7. Exaggeration or outrageous statement
Support details:
1. Facts
2. Statistics
3. Quotes
4. Examples
5. Reasons
6. Details
How to conclude (conclusion):
1. Restate your thesis statement
2. Summarize points
3. Do any of the following:
a. Predict
b. Ask a question
c. Recommend
d. Quotation
e. Personal comment
Structure of expository essay
1. Description
2. Sequence
3. compare/constrast
4. cause/effect
5. problem/solution
Personal recount (two types)
1. Personal recount - Events that the writer was personally involved in
2. Factual recount - recording details or events in which the writer has not necessarily
been involved in.
Parts of Recount:
1. Orientation - intro of event and introduces who, what, where, when, why, and
possibly how of the event.
2. Sequence of Events
3. Reorientation - reorientation - a writer can give personal opinions about the topic or
event.
Steps in writing recount:
1. Set the orientation
2. Recall and relay the series of events.
3. Pick out important details
4. Separate major parts in different paragraphs
5. Include descriptive details if needed
6. Re-orient the reader

Persuasive texts
Structure:
1. Introduction
2. Supporting details
3. Conclusion
4. Pre-writing
a. Choose your position
b. Understand of audience
c. Do your research
d. Make your outline
5. Writing (How to start writing persuasive texts):
a. The Intro paragraph should get your reader’s attention
b. Claims or counterclaims should leave no doubts about your position.
c. Supporting sentences should offer strong evidence
d. Consider various ways to develop the argument
e. Define terms and give background info
f. Concluding paragraph should summarize the most important points and
encourage the reader to adopt the position or take action
g. Revise and edit

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