Analyze Expository Text Features

​The learner will:

• ​Paraphrase and summarize texts

• ​Analyze the controlling idea, thesis, and supporting evidence of a text

• ​Analyze text features such as footnotes, endnotes, and citations

• ​An expository text is any writing that provides information.

• ​Expository texts give readers facts, examples, and purposeful information about a topic.

• ​An expository text's main purpose is to explain.

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• ​Always start with your topic,

  • topic=what your paper will be about.

• ​Turn your topic into a thesis

  • thesis=the main idea of your paper

  • ​written as one sentence at the beginning of the paper

• supporting evidence explains why the thesis statement is true

• ​specific details

• ​reasons

• ​examples

• ​charts

• ​graphs

• ​data

• ​A reference to the source of information is a citation.

  • ​a citation tells where you got your information

• ​Footnotes: citations found at the bottom of the page

• ​Endnotes: citations found at the end of a document or the end of the chapter

• ​Plagiarism: stealing someone else's work or ideas and presenting them as your own; not citing your sources

  • ​plagiarism can be accidental or on purpose

• ​paraphrase: rewriting information in your own words

• ​summary: a brief statement of the main points

• ​synthesizing: combining different ideas from the text to create a conclusion