An expository essay is intended to explain or describe a topic objectively using facts. It presents a subject in detail by analyzing and explaining it in order to convey information or clarify something that is difficult to understand. An expository essay has the basic structure of an introduction, body paragraphs with supporting facts and explanations, and a conclusion.

1. Essay Writing
Expository Essays

2. ‘a comprehensive
description and
explanation of an idea or
theory’.
EXPOSITION
‘intended to explain or
describe something’.
EXPOSITIORY
Definition

3. •The purpose of an expository essay is
to present, completely and fairly, other
people's views or to report about an
event or a situation.
•Expository writing, or exposition,
presents a subject in detail, apart from
criticism, argument, or development;
i.e., the writer explains a subject by
analysing it.
•Such writing is designed to convey
information or explain what is difficult
to understand.

4. •Expository essays are
simply essays that explain
something with facts, as
opposed to opinion.
…In other
words,
•Essays that describe how to
do something.
•Essays that analyse events,
ideas, objects, or written
works.
•Essays that describe a
process
•Essays that
explain/describe an historical
event.
Expository
Essays can be:

5. STRUCTURE OF AN EXPOSITORY
ESSAY
An expository essay should have the same basic
structure as any typical essays, with an:
• introductory paragraph,
• body paragraphs,
• and a conclusion.
The length of your essay can vary, according to
context.