Use appropriate pre-writing and planning strategies. Use various methods of development and organization appropriate to purpose. Develop effective paragraphs. Writing Exposition, writing that explains or informs, accounts for much of the writing students will produce in school. When we write to explain an idea, teach a process, describe something, or persuade someone, we are using exposition .
Exposition organizes ideas in a variety of logical patterns.
The writer can organize according to examples, details, causes and effects, reasons, definitions, comparisons, and contrasts. Comparing and contrasting are essential to clear thinking and are often used as a means to make expository writing clearer and more effective. When we read two pieces of literature about the same or similar topics, we compare them in our mind. We notice how they are similar. When we contrast two pieces of literature, we focus upon their differences.