Dinner Party Essay

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Characteristics of Expository Essays Dinner Party Table Settings and Cochlear Implants • What characteristics make these essays expository? Examples, time order, and space order. • In what ways are expository essays similar to business communication? They both promote a product or service. • In what ways are they different? Business communication charges a fee for their products or service. • Identify the type of organization each author used to develop the essay? In Table Setting the author used informative process and time order. In Cochlear Implants the author used topic. • Why do you think each author chose that type of organization for his or her essay? In what ways does this organizational choice make the essay effective? What effect could the author have achieved with another type of organization or another type of expository essay? I think for Table Setting the author chose this type of essay because there are many different steps to follow and they have to be done in order. This organizational choice makes the essay effective because it gives you step by step directions. If the author used the Process Essay she could have gotten the same effect. I think for Cochlear Implants the author used this type of essay because he wanted to explain what a Cochlear Implant is. If the author had used the Persuasive or Argumentative essay form he would only be giving his point of view on how he feels about the Cochlear Implants. • In what ways are these expository essays alike? In what ways are they different? Both essays used examples and the informative process. They are different because one tells how to do something and the other tells what a product
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