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Scott raises another issue which I have never really understood . . .
although I have taught writing for more than 30 years. What do people
mean by expository writing? Is it different from argument? I used to
think I understood. Argument has a thesis, proves a point.
Expository writing simply informs. But then does it have a thesis
too? And if it does, doesn't that make it an argument? How is
esposiition different from argument? Does it try to prove a point, a
thesis, but in a less argumentative way? Is it an argument that is
more balanced? Or, as Lunsford and Ruszkiewicz put it, is "everthing
an argument"?
Peter
On Jun 8, 2009, at 10:24 PM, Scott wrote:
> Expository writing uses a thesis; descriptive writing, a motif.
> In Senior English the mid-term examination included a descriptive
> writing assignment. I started, “Once a man passed by and saw a
> field of weeds, then I passed by and said, ‘Yesterday’s flowers
> am I’, for what is a weed but a flower that no one loves.” I
> continued in the same motif. It may sound silly today but it was
> genuine when I wrote it. No thesis needed.
>
> N. Scott Catledge
> P.S. The longest string of garbage in the posting to which I am
> replying
> was my previous post—-almost 20 pages.
> I wonder about dropping digest and getting them one at a time.
>
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