Expositive Text

It is objectively presented facts, ideas and concepts. Its purpose is to report on topics of general interest to a lay audience, without prior knowledge. They belong to this type of texts: lectures, textbooks, newspaper articles, tests and reviews, among others.

Expository texts are those that establish a topic or argument provides an oral discourse because it contains social arguments of one or more subjects; its means, can pick a theme or more to get to make a speech or presentation.

On the other hand, specialized not reporting but aim to understand scientific aspects, which require a more specialized, with greater knowledge of the subject receptor. They have, therefore, greater syntactic and lexical complexity. Belong to this scientific,  legal and humanistic texts.

Type of Expositive Texts

Informative: texts that report on a topic of interest . They are aimed at a broad sector of the public, they do not require prior knowledge on the subject of the exhibition ( newspaper,  articles , notes, textbooks, encyclopedias, conferences, collectibles texts, brochures, among others).

Specialized: texts that have a high degree of difficulty, as they require extensive prior knowledge of the subject matter (doctoral reports, master, law, research articles, monographs, etc.).

Structure of a Expositve Texts

Introduction : Explanation of how the issue will be discussed .

The development : The most important part of the text ; It is clear and orderly presentation of information.

The conclusion:  summarizes the information presented; its purpose is to summarize key aspects of the topic discussed.

Example of a Expositive Text

Water (from the Latin aqua) is a substance whose molecule consists of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom (H2O). It is essential for the survival of all known forms of life. The term generally refersto water the substance in its liquid state, although same may be in solid form called ice, and in its gaseous form called steam 
Water covers 71 % of the surface of the cortex terrestre.2 are located mainly in the oceans where 96.5 % of the total water is concentrated, glaciers and ice caps have 1.74% , underground reservoirs (aquifers ), the permafrost and continental glaciers account for 1.72 % and the remaining 0.04 % is distributed in descending order between lakes , soil moisture , atmosphere, reservoirs, rivers and living beings.

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Nota: En la siguiente clase realiza un texto expositivo en tu cuaderno en Inglés, recuerda checar el siguiente video para reforzar la información sobre los textos expositivos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mRt2moXGjw


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