Analytical Exposition

Purpose
• To persuade by presenting arguments

• To analyze or explain ‘how’ and ‘why’


Text Organization
• A thesis

• Arguments

• Reiteration


Language Features
• Emotive words
(e.g.: alarmed, worried)

• Words that qualify statements
(e.g.: usual, probably)

• Words that link arguments
(e.g.: firstly, however, on the other hand, therefore)

• The use of the present tense

• The use of compound and complex sentences