Analytical Exposition Text

Analytical Exposition Text

Analytical exposition is a text that elaborates the writer’s idea about the phenomenon that occurs in daily life. Its social function is to persuade the readers that there is a case to concern to pay attention to.

Generic Structures

1.      Thesis              :  introduces about the topic amd indicates writer’s position.

2.      Arguments       : restates main arguments outlines in preview.

3.      Reiteration       : a conclusion summing up the arguments.

Language features

1.      Using simple present tense

Example : English is  the world’s most important language.

2.      Connectors : to mention several parts of arguments

                 Firstly, …                Secondly, …                Finally, …

          First, …                   Second, …                   also

          moreover                furthermore                 etc.

* to summarize or conclude the points     

3.   Summarizing                                 Concluding

          In short, …                          In conclusion, …

          In a word, …                      On the whole, …        

          In brief, …                          Altogether, …

          To sum up, …                     In all,

4. Emotive words

            e.g.: I’m worried of his safety.

            She felt in love with him since her first sight.

    Words that qualify statements

            e.g.: My son's friend probably will eat at our house tonight.

            We left for work at our usual time.     

   Words that link arguments

            e.g. : Firstly, add some sugar into the glass.

             However, they have no other way.

            Therefore, i have to go home before the rain.

Title   : SHOULD CARS BE BANNED FROM THE CITY ?

Thesis : Cars should be banned from the city center at least in the biggest cities because they bring on more problems than benefits. Pollution is the top one major drawback, along with traffic jams and a relentless decrease in local commerce.

Arguments 1 : Firstly, it is widely known that cars are responsible for the highest levels of carbon dioxide emissions, the most common greenhouse gas.

Arguments 2 : Secondly, public transportation should be the priority mean of commuting. Even after the implementation of urban toll, London and São Paulo have reached peaks of immobility in their centers in the last decades. London has fallen back on bicycle routes and São Paulo has tried hard to work up subway and buses lines.

Arguments 3 : In addition to that, local commerce looses pedestrians and consequently sales volume decreases. Local residents are forced to move out of the city center making the area much more devaluated.

Conclusion   : In some conditions, cars can be good for us if we want to go to a far destination. But, in the other hand, cars become not good for human health caused by the carbon dioxide emissions. What can we do now is, starting using public transportation rather than private transportation. So, we have to know how to use cars wisely for our life.