Writing Expository Paragraphs helps low-intermediate ESL students recognize the format and building blocks of an English paragraph. This text helps students generate ideas, construct sentences, and compose and edit paragraphs of various rhetorical styles. For each type of paragraph development, there are tasks that enable students to go through the writing process while learning rhetoric-specific format, sentence structures, and punctuation.  

Writing Expository Paragraphs:

• Features an introductory unit that includes essential elements of a paragraph and addresses common errors in low-intermediate student writing
• Encourages student participation in various activities to generate ideas
• Contains issues and socio-cultural topics that motivate students
• Provides units that help students become familiar with different modes of paragraph development and explains the objectives that are expected by the end of each learning unit