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I. Expository Essay;; The most common type of essay writing is expository essay or exposition. The purpose of this writing is to inform or explain. he writer appeals to the readers understanding with provable facts and well-based information, and explains the material so that the reader will accept his point of view. Exposition is used to explain anything difficult to understand, for example, the explanation of a natural law, a scientific discovery, an invention, or a solution to a problem.;An expository essay has three main parts: (1)?An introductory paragraph (2)?A body (at least one, but usually two or more paragraphs) (3) A concluding paragraph; The introductory paragraph consists of two parts: a few general statements about your subject to attract your reader’s attention and a thesis statement to state the specific subdivisions of your topic and/or the “plan” of your paper. A thesis statement for an essay is just like a topic sentence for a paragraph: It names the specific topic and the controlling ideas or major subdivisions of the topic.; The body consists of one or more paragraphs. Each paragraph develops a subdivision of your topic, so the number of paragraphs in the body will vary with the number of subdivisions or subtopics. The body is the longest part of the essay and can contain as many paragraphs as necessary to support the controlling ideas of your thesis statement. You can organize the paragraphs in an essay just as you organize the ideas in a paragraph, by chronological order, logical division of ideas, comparison and contrast, etc.;The conclusion in an essay, like the concluding sentence in a paragraph, is a summary or review of the main points discussed in the body.; The only additional element in an essay is the linking expressions between the paragraphs of the body. These are just like transitions within a paragraph. You use transitions within a paragraph to connect the ideas between two sentences. Similarly, you use tra