1. How to write a good
expository essay?
Team: Yellow
(Chi Jun, Zawanah, Wee Heng &
Afrina)

2. Writing Expositions
Establish a clear thesis statement
•
States: What we believe
What we intend to persuade our
audience
• To inform our audience of the scope, purpose
and direction
• It should be clear and effective for example
taking and justifying a stand on the
issue, expressing main idea and providing
blueprint, or overview, of key argument.
• Tells the audience precisely about the
exposition

3. A clear thesis statement
Taking & justifying a
stand
• Take the form of a
sentence or two
describing the
writer’s stand on an
issue.
Expressing main idea
• It should be
clear, focused &
main idea.
Providing blueprint
• Show what a
constructed building
supposed to look
• Develop the points
stated

4. Hedging
• Using cautious language
• Audience percieve us as trustworthy as we
show that we arenot trying to overstate our
claims.
• Should use adjectives, nouns, adverbs and
also clauses

5. Writing Expositions
Using valid supporting materials
• Evidences and examples are known as
supporting materials.
• Directly related to thesis statement
• Using of it depends on our purpose and
audience
• Four types of supporting materials:
->Facts ->Statistics –>Examples ->Testimonies

6. Using valid supporting
materials
Facts
Statistics
• It is tested and
proven true.
• Credible sources of
information
• Info about
people, places, even
ts, time and date.
• Sets of numbers
representing facts
or measurements.
• Help to substantiate
our claim and
enable us to
convince them.
• Must be reliable and
unbiased sources

7. Using valid supporting
materials
Examples
Testimonies
• Specific
facts, ideas, persons
or things to explain
or support the
points
• Concrete examples &
Hypothetical
examples
• Concrete examples
is based on events or
situations that
happened
• Hypothetical
• Person’s account of
an event
• Expert testimonies &
Personal
testimonies
• Expert testimonies is
an account from
someone who is
known as an expert
in field work.
• Peronal testimonies
is based on own
experiences.

8. Video
It is the Expository Writing Song

9. Since now that you know
how to write an
exository essay,we hope
you apply it.
for listening to us
the YELLOW APPLE Team!