This means, further, that many very different organizational strategies can be equally successful in presenting the same subject matter. The difference between exposition and paraphrase or summary. If you choose to satisfy the course writing requirement by producing expository essays, you need to understand clearly the difference between exposition and paraphrase or summary. Paraphrase or summary seeks simply to state or report what a particular text says. Thus, what you find in the Cliffs Notes and Monarch Notes series is primarily summary or paraphrase.
Good exposition requires something more than accuracy.
Good exposition goes beyond summary to explanation and succeeds in making the text more intelligible to its audience. Imagine yourself doing an exposition of or teaching a doctrine with whose basic vocabulary and components your audience is already familiar. They have already read the text that you are assigned to explain. Let's say they've even read the Cliffs Notes summary of the text you are explaining. Certainly, in that case, it would be pointless to summarize one more time the content of the text or merely to repeat in slightly different words the doctrine already presented by the author.