Double Duty Discovery: Expository Writing Assignment Using Protocol Matters
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What characteristics make this essay expository? Identify the type of organization used todevelop the essay: topic, time order, space order or informative process. Why do you think the author choose that type of organization for his/hers essay? What organizational choice makes it effective? What effect might have achieved another type of organization or another type of expository essay? What ways are essays alike and the ways they are different?? Explain the answers?