文档介绍：Unit 8
Five Traits of the Educated Man
Purposes
1. To get students know the importance of education.
2. To understand the purpose of writing and the characteristics of exposition.
3. To reinforce some basic linguistic knowledge by doing various types of exercises.
How to write an expository essay(说明文)?
Exposition means explaining. An expository essay explaining something, such as why a certain phenomenon happens, how a problem is solved, or what a word or term means.
A primary concern of exposition is clarity. To achieve this, you should bear in mind the following points.
Narrowing the Scope of discussion
You have to limit your discussion to a manageable topic, for it is impossible to explain many things clearly in a short essay. For instance, you may find the topic “attitudes Toward Science” too general to write about in a short essay. You can then narrow it to “Public Attitudes Toward Science”.
Making Clear your attitudes toward the subject
In a sense, exposition is the process of making a statement and then supporting it with evidence. When presenting a statement, you must make sure it expresses very clearly your attitude toward the subject. Supposing you write about “The impact of Scientific Discoveries”, you could start your essay with such a statement as ?Scientific discoveries benefit us in many ways.” If you sound uncertain of your own opinion about the subject, the reader will be left with only a vague idea of what you want to say.
Preparing enough material
It is advisable to prepare enough material (details or examples) to help your explanation. Readers often find abstract discussions hard to follow if they are not illustrated by concrete examples. Moreover, good exposition if often both instructive and interesting, with many concrete examples, your essay certainly will not be dull, though not necessarily interesting.
Dramatizing the issue
Good writing gets the reader’s attention quickly. If you are writing about the problem of pollution , you