Expository Essay Instructions - Expository Research Essay— In Week 1, you will select a topic that will sustain your interest for the next ten weeks

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Expository Research Essay—

In Week 1, you will select a topic that will sustain your interest for the next ten weeks. Once that first step is complete, it’s time to begin learning all that you can through the research process. In this first essay, you will inform your readers by providing a thorough examination of the issue you’ve selected.

Your Goal: The purpose of an expository essay is to inform and explain. Your essay is going to help your readers understand the issue you’ve chosen on the same level that you do.  Your job is to analyze various perspectives on the topic you’ve selected and to present them to readers, along with background on the topic.

You are not offering your opinion on the issue you’ve selected; your objective for this first essay is to inform and explain that issue. You will have opportunities to express your views on your topic later in the class, but, for now, your paper should be informative, not persuasive.

This means that, as a writer, you need to remain neutral on your topic at this point. Part of the goal of the research is to allow ourselves to be open to discovering new points of view on a topic, even if we start the process by thinking our minds are made up. Often, students find that their original point of view on their issue does not hold up after they read expert opinions and studies. Being willing to be convinced by the research and personal reflection is an important facet of being an educated and fair-minded person.  Once it is time to argue your position on your topic (in the second essay), you will be much better prepared to do so because you have put the work in now to really understand the topic.

The Realizeit Modules will guide you through expository writing strategies and the steps required to choose a strong topic and write a successful paper.

Here is a document   Download Here is a document that outlines two different ways of approaching this essay's organizational pattern.

Weekly Breakdown:

To guide you through this process, we'll work through several steps these next few weeks.  Here's how they will break down:

Step 1/Week 1 - Select your topic. Remember that you will keep this topic for the whole 10-week class, so give this lots of thought.

Step 2/Week 2 - Construct an annotated bibliography using two to three sources. This process asks you to find solid academic sources and summarize them; it’s extremely helpful in preparing you to draft your paper and helps you unfold the debate within the topic.

Step 3/Week 3 – Draft the essay. Explain the issue, and identify and summarize the various positions within your topic in essay format.  It is less important that your writing is high quality this week and more important just that you are writing!

Step 4/Week 4—Submit your final Expository Research Essay, building from the draft you created in Step 3.

IMPORTANT POINT: One last time, let us remind you that the topic you choose for this paper will be your topic for the entire class, meaning it will also be your topic for the Argumentative Essay (due Week 8) and the Opinion Article (due Week 10). 

Paper requirements:

· 1,000 - 1,500 words (not including the title and References page).

· Use at least 3  reputable (Links to an external site.)  sources.

· APA format (Title Page, Paper, References)

· 1-inch margins

· Double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12-point font

· Indented paragraphs

· Third-person POV (no I, you, we, us, our)

· No contractions