Writing Expository Essays
Class notes and guidelines on writing an expository essay
This is a model of an expository paper, the first draft.  The same paper is presented below with colored-coded text.  Before reading the model below, see if you can identify parts of the paper discussed in the notes above: the introduction, the thesis statement, the topic sentences, the supporting details, transitional statements, and the clincher.
The color-coded model of the essay provided
The writing rubric
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