Expository Writing: Expository Writing, List 2

Expository writing is writing that presents the reader with important research and information about a topic. This list of vocabulary can help expose you to the key terms that provide the basis for good expository writing.

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  1. fact
    a piece of information about events that have occurred
  2. inference
    a conclusion you can draw based on known evidence
  3. information
    knowledge acquired through study or experience
  4. informational
    relating to or conveying facts and knowledge
  5. introduction
    the act of beginning something new
  6. logical
    based on known statements or events or conditions
  7. narration
    giving an account describing a course of events
  8. newspaper
    a daily or weekly publication with articles and advertisements
  9. nonfiction
    prose writing that is not formed by the imagination
  10. outline
    the line that appears to bound an object
  11. problem
    a question raised for consideration or solution
  12. process
    a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
  13. propose
    present for consideration, examination, or criticism
  14. rebut
    overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof
  15. reference
    the act of consulting
  16. report
    to give an account or representation of in words
  17. research
    a seeking for knowledge
  18. sequential
    in regular succession without gaps
  19. solution
    a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances
  20. source
    the place where something begins
  21. speculate
    reflect deeply on a subject
  22. syntax
    the study of the rules for forming admissible sentences
  23. thesis
    an unproved statement advanced as a premise in an argument
  24. tone
    the distinctive property of a complex sound
  25. voice
    the sound made when a person speaks
Created on Tue Aug 09 10:18:16 EDT 2022 (updated Thu Aug 11 11:40:15 EDT 2022)

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