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Understanding Analytical Expository Text

The document defines analytical exposition text as a text that elaborates the writer's ideas about a phenomenon. The purpose is to analyze a topic and persuade the reader that the writer's opinion is correct. It includes an introduction with a thesis outlining arguments, body paragraphs with points and elaborations supporting each argument, and a conclusion restating the writer's position. Language features focus on participants and processes to state what is thought, happens, and reasons through conjunctions and nominalization. An example analyzes why cars should be banned from a city.

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Understanding Analytical Expository Text

The document defines analytical exposition text as a text that elaborates the writer's ideas about a phenomenon. The purpose is to analyze a topic and persuade the reader that the writer's opinion is correct. It includes an introduction with a thesis outlining arguments, body paragraphs with points and elaborations supporting each argument, and a conclusion restating the writer's position. Language features focus on participants and processes to state what is thought, happens, and reasons through conjunctions and nominalization. An example analyzes why cars should be banned from a city.

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Analytical Expository text

Defenition
Analytical exposition text is a text that elaborates the writers idea about the
phenomenon
surrounding.

Purpose
To persuade the reader or listener that there is something that, certainly,
needs to get attention
To analyze a topic and to persuade the reader that this opinion is correct
and supported by arguments
Examples: argumentative essay, exploratory essay
Generic Structure
1. Thesis: Introduces the topic and shows speaker or writers position;
Outlines of the arguments to be presented.
2. Arguments: It consists about Point and Elaboration Point, states the
main argument. Elaboration: develops and supports each point of
argument
3. Conclusion: Reiteration (restatement), restates speaker or writers
position

. Language Features
. Focusongenerichuman andnon human participants.
. Usementalprocesses. It is usedto state what the writer or speaker thinksor
feelsaboutsomething, for example: realize, feel, etc.
. [Link] is used tostate what happens, forexample:has
polluted, etc.
. Useofsimplepresenttense.
. Useofrelationalprocesses.
. Useofinternalconjunctiontostateargument.
. Reasoningthroughcasualconjunctionornominalization.
EXAMPLE :
Cars should be banned in the city
Thesis Cars should be banned in the city. As we
all know, cars create pollution, and cause
a lot of road deaths and other accidents.
Arguments Firstly,cars, as we all know, contribute to
most of the pollution in [Link]
a deadly gas that causes illnesses such as
bronchitis, lung cancer, and triggers off
asthma. Some of these illnesses are so
bad that people can die from
[Link], the city is very busy.
Pedestrians wander everywhere and cars
commonly hit pedestrians in the city,
which causes them to die. Cars today are
our roads biggest killers.
Thirdly, cars are very noisy. If you live in
the city, you may find it hard to sleep at
night, or concentrate on your homework,
and especially talk to someone.

Reiteration In conclusion, cars should be banned from

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