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* Lecture 02 Instructor Zheng Li 郑 莉 Mobile Phone: lilyzheng712@163.com Office Place: Rm. 310, Building 7C, East Campus * Overview In this lecture, you will learn… Possibilities for Starting the Expository Essays, and How to write the conclusion. * Preview What is exposition? Exposition is writing that explains or gives information. Patterns of Exposition Characteristics of an Expository Essay Introduction and thesis statement * Possibilities for Starting the Expository Essays Anecdote Personal Experience Description Question Quotation Analogy Definition Shocking Statement Background Information * Anecdote While sitting by the concrete fountain in the mall, I noticed a pudgy man in a red-and-yellow T-shirt. It wasn’t his protruding belly that caught my attention; I was drawn to the message on the front of his shirt. Above his sagging waistline was a map of Japan with two stars on it and above the map, the line “Two Bombs Were Not Enough.” Who knows what reasons he had for wearing such ad display of tastelessness, but it is typical of all those offensive little bumper stickers and T-shirt messages that assault us every day. Each one makes us a little less inventive to the next assault. Our culture is reveling in an orgy of bad taste, and no one seems to mind. * Personal Experience I came to the United States one year ago and I had no idea about life in the United States and American traditions, except that life was complicated and people were strange. At the time I arrived at J. F. Kennedy Airport, I felt very happy because I was fond of traveling around the world. Coming to America had been one of my dreams. A few minutes later, however, I felt afraid. I asked myself why I had come to this strange world and what I was doing here. I remembered what my friends at home said about Americans treating strangers. After I attended college, however, I discovered the opposite of what I had expected: Americans are friendly to strangers. *