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The Expository Essay

The Expository Essay. Expectations for your essay. To Hook or not to Hook?. Let’s be real Some of your future teachers will ask you to put this component in your essay. We are not. X. I. Intro Paragraph.

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The Expository Essay

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  1. The Expository Essay Expectations for your essay

  2. To Hook or not to Hook? • Let’s be real • Some of your future teachers will ask you to put this component in your essay. • We are not X

  3. I. Intro Paragraph 1) Introduce your essay with context: Introduce your source material or main subject in three or four sentences. 2) Dedicate one or two sentences each to each of the topics you will discuss your essay. 3) Drop your thesis at the end of this intro paragraph.

  4. Remember: Just like your thesis is a mini outline for your essay, your intro is also a type of outline or roadmap for your essay.

  5. II. The Body Paragraphs 1) Have a topic sentence that indicates what your paragraph is about. • In your body paragraphs you will: • 2) Present your main piece of evidence. This can be a quote, paraphrase, or statistic. • -introduce it with context, who is speaking or writing and where did they say it. • -after the evidence, analyze the evidence in reference TO YOUR THESIS. 3) Present your secondary evidence. This can also be a quote, paraphrase, or statistic. 4) Conclude with your concluding sentence. This will be like your topic sentence with evidence included.

  6. Here’s another example of introducing a quote and analyzing it

  7. In chapter 6 of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass is quoting and speaking about his master, Mr. Auld, when he writes, ‘"Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world. Now," said he, "if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master. As to himself, it could do him no good, but a great deal of harm. It would make him discontented and unhappy." These words sank deep into my heart, stirred up sentiments within that lay slumbering, and called into existence an entirely new train of thought. It was a new and special revelation, explaining dark and mysterious things, with which my youthful understanding had struggled, but struggled in vain. I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty--to wit, the white man's power to enslave the black man.” (20) Frederick Douglass is writing about his master, Mr. Auld, and his resistance to educate his slaves. His master has clearly come to the conclusion that educating slaves would lead to a rebellion, or at least to a slave population that is harder to manage. This realization demonstrateshow education is used as a means of control in the novel because without it, according to Mr. Auld, slaves were more manageable and easier control.This quote also illustrates, Douglass’s own realization as to the reason that slaves are kept illiterate and uneducated and are thus, easier to control. This quote shows that Douglass believes that the lack of education is the most oppressive measure that slave holders impose on the enslaved population.

  8. III. The Conclusion 1) Have topic sentence for this paragraph as well: This will be a restatement of your thesis (a simpler version). 2) Dedicate two sentences explaining each of your topics with the evidence you provided in the body paragraphs. • 3) Have a concluding sentence that sums up your argument.

  9. Brought to you by: Carter Woodson Frederick Douglass and Mr. Batchelor Mr. Wheeler

  10. END Additional Formatting Expectations to Come

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