Lecture 2
1.Teaching task: exemplification expository essay writing
2.Teaching target and object:
A: Enable the students to understand what an expository essay is and what functions this kind of writing has.
B. Enable the students to be able to write an expository essay by means of exemplification.
3.Teaching focus: expository essay writing by means of exemplification
Writing topic:One can tell a great deal about you from how you dress.
4.Teaching method: free writing--–commentary --–discussion---guided writing---commentary
–-comparison with the sample---summery
5.Teaching procedures:
1. Discussing the purposes for writing the four different genres.
In narrative essays, the writing purpose is to give an account of an event or a series of events. Therefore, the writers should take the six journalistic questions into consideration: who? What? When? Where? How? Why? As far as the paragraph developing pattern is concerned, we can often use the time order by means of some transitional words indicating time.
In descriptive essays, the writing purpose is to tell what something or someone looks like. Therefore descriptive can be also defined as the expression of the six senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch and feeling) experience in vivid language. When we describe a place, we frequently use the spatial order to develop the details of a descriptive essay. We use some transitional phrases indicating space order, use the concrete and specific sensory adjectives, and use some figurative language such as simile, metaphor and personification.
In expository essays, the writing purpose is to explain. Exposition is a kind of writing that offers explanations. Patterns of exposition are as follows:
Exemplification; process analysis; cause-effect analysis; comparison and contrast;
classification and division; definition.
In argumentative essays, the writing purpose is to persuade or convince the reader to accept your opinions.
3.Ask the students to write a short essay of about 200 words according to the given
topic “ One can tell a great deal about you from how you dress”in any way they think appropriate. (20 minutes)
menting on the student’s essay mainly in the following aspects: (20 minutes)
the writing purpose:
the relationship between the writer and reader:
the necessary contents:
the organization:
the paragraph developing pattern:
the language use :
5.Discuss with the class the writing principles for writing such an expository essay:
1)Determining the purpose: Are you writing to give an account of event; to
describe what someone or something looks like ; or to explain your point ?
Exposition is a kind of writing that explains. No matter what the contexts
