Expository Short Essay: How has your villain or hero changed the world? Expository (Giving Information) Make sure
this is organized with this rubric or heavy points are taken off.
Type and double space a MLA formatted Essay with Work Cited Page.
A person or entity, especially those in authority positions, can affect other humans by their actions every day. Discuss how your
villain or hero has changed the world we now live in?
This paper is formal writing and cannot have any: I’s, You’s, My’s, we’s, or informal terms used in this paper.
You must have MLA Citation for your short story internally and externally- (Work Cited Page)- At least two sources to support your
information, your short story and one other online or in our text book.
Paragraph #1 – Introduction
 AG/Hook –
 Introduce topic (Make the prompt your question) Description of issue (Can still have 2 perspectives/sides + 2 sentences background or just 4
sentences background total)– (get details-do not answer the claim here or in lead.)
 Lead Sentence- (use weak word/TW)
 Thesis or full claim: TW +Claim (Answer Question) + 2 ideas –
Paragraph #2 Rephrase Claim and first idea with
Higher level word choice.
Topic Sentence: TW+ Claim + Idea #1
Need claim made by synonyms in context.
Paragraph #3 Rephrase Claim and first idea with
Higher level word choice.
Topic Sentence: TW+ Claim + Idea #2
Need claim made by synonyms in context.
Evidence to support
Evidence to support
(details and examples)
(details and examples)
- 1 citation needed
- 1 citation needed
- Conclusion Statement
- Conclusion Statement
Develop
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for Heading (USE:
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New Roman,
Double
Space Header, & 1” Margins)
Paragraph #4 – Conclusion Paragraph
 Rephrase the full Thesis (TW showing closure + claim + 2 Ideas) Use higher level synonyms in context.
 Wrap up
1. Copy or rephrase all conclusion sentences from par 2 and 3.
2. Synthesis both differences and similarities into a complete perspective.
 Clincher (A sentence that is provocative or shows insight about the information given. Use higher level vocabulary. The
quote or interesting comment should be reflected on here .) Try a “nutshell.” Look at your quote again and refer
back to it at the end-right her with a clever comment.
Last page is a work cited page with at least two sources to support your information, your short story and one other online or in
our text book.
(Your Name)
Ms. Whitesides
English: Period (Then spell your period hour out!)
05 May 2017
Expository Essay: Mythology
Start here with position one: an attention getter. Remember this is never a question. AG’s are quotes, or use higher level word
choices, or an interesting comment. If you use a quote or you paraphrase, you must cite it (Whitesides). If there is not author,
use an entity (Poets.org). Now get a question; Take it right from the prompt. Don’t forget a “?” You can still use sides or
perspectives, or you may choose to just place four background sentences of information. Now shoot for a lead, to lead the reader
to your side using a soft transition word, (Perhaps, or Perchance, or Maybe.) Usually a lead in an expository comparison and
contrast infers that either experiences or sides are important to being close to the truth. Leads are not repetitive to the claim.
Now, for the most important part, the Claim/Thesis statement. Start it with a strong- this is a fact- transition word, (Evidently,
Factually, Facts Denote, etc…) then answer the question, and then tell two short ideas. These thesis/claim statements do not
need a “because” word always because it is information not argumentative.
You will need 3 more paragraphs. The second paragraph talks all about the first higher level idea. The third paragraph discusses
the second higher level idea. The fourth wraps everything back up and summarizes/synthesizes all you said, then ends with a
clincher that refers to your Ag/Hook. (You can expand your essay with the elaboration of 3 ideas, 5 paragraphs, as you write more
expository essays in the future.)
Prewriting:
Circle two higher level ideas of how your leader or event changed the world: Many prompts may need us to have these
synonyms for the following:
Similarities
Differences
Higher Level Idea #1
Similarities
Higher Level Idea #2
Differences