EXPOSITORY PARAGRAPH: CHARACTERISTICS, PARTS AND EXAMPLES - LITERATURE - 2025

An expository paragraph is that text that provides information on a certain topic or event without including comments subject to personal, individual or subjective opinion. They are paragraphs that convey information, knowledge of something.

An expository paragraph presents concepts and facts objectively. Their purpose is to communicate on a certain topic, in which the author in no case gives his opinions or thoughts. They are generally written in the third person.

Expository paragraphs only provide information without including subjective comments. That is, they describe events without trying to convince the reader.

Expository paragraph example

In what has been said, we will note that there is a series of concrete data. We are informed that the dolphin is a marine mammal, it is a cetacean of the order of the odontocetes, and that there are 34 varieties. Everything is concrete information and without room for opinions of any kind.

Another example

Parts of an expository paragraph

The expository texts have a structure, introduction, development and conclusion.

Introduction

It is an explanation about the subject of the text, to awaken the interest of the reader.

Development

More data and ideas are formed that will make up the paragraph. It is the most important part of the text.

conclusion

Summarizes the fundamental aspects of the subject, with a brief synthesis.

Structure example

Linguistic characteristics

Expository paragraphs must contain clear linguistic characteristics:

Objectivity

Use of impersonal and declarative sentences

Clarity and precision

-Preferably the use of the timeless and the indicative mood. If it is a description of a process, the imperfect is used. That is, it is written in the present as indicative, the information displayed is always true regardless of the temporal plane in which it is found.

-Use of connectors, such as discourse computers, explanatory

-Use of resources such as comparisons, definitions, enumerations, examples.

They are known in the school setting as informative. Its main function is to transmit information, but not only to provide data, but also adds explanation, gives examples and analogies.

Expository paragraph classes

Informative expository paragraph

The informative expository paragraphs are texts of general interest for a public without previous knowledge on the subject. For example lectures, textbooks, and others.

Specialized expository paragraph

The specialized expository paragraphs not only inform, but also try to understand scientific aspects, and are for a more educated public on the subject. They therefore have greater syntactic and dialectical complexity. For example scientific, legal texts, and others.

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