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Monday, March 29, 2010

Analytical Exposition Text

In this section, you will learn how to:
     • Read and study an analytical exposition;
     • Identify the structure of analytical exposition;


Exposition is a text that elaborates the writer‘s idea about the phenomenon surrounding. Its social function is to persuade the reader or listener that something is the case or the idea is an important matter.

Generic Structure of Analytical Exposition are :
a.    Thesis: Introducing the topic and indicating the writer’s position
b.    Arguments: Explaining the arguments to support the writer’s position
c.    Reiteration: Restating the writer’s position

Language Features of Analytical Exposition are :
a.    Using relational process
b.    Using internal conjunction
c.    Using causal conjunction
d.    Using Simple Present Tense

The Simple Explanation between Analytical Exposition and  Hortatory Exposition
Analytical exposition is classified into  hortatory exposition in genre. Both analytical exposition and hortatory exposition present arguments for supporting the issued thesis. What makes them different from one to another is the last stage of the text. The analytical exposition will end with a re-iteration. In the other hand, hortatory will close the essay with a recommendation. Analytical exposition will try to influence the reader by presenting some arguments to prove that the writer's idea is important. Furthermore, hortatory will try to persuade the reader how should or not do concerning the writer's idea.

Now let's see the following examples of analytical exposition!

Text 1
Accredited School

Why is It Important to Choose the Accredited School?
Most of teenagers need to go to school and there are a lot of schools over there. Nowadays, schools grow to offer plenty of choice; private and state ones. However it is a hard choice since there are many factors which need to be considered before making the selection. Some will be influenced by friends; because some friend got to certain school than we go to there too. Some prefer to choose certain school because of the closer distance. In fact, the primary decisive matter for selecting school is whether the school has been accredited or not.
Why is important to choose an accredited school? Well, accredited schools have an edge over the unaccredited schools. This label of Accredited School has an impact in employment opportunities. As result, if there are two or more students with similar qualifications, the student who comes from the accredited school will have an edge over the other candidate. Student from an accredited school has more open door than student with an accredited one.
Many students select certain school depending more on short term factors like friend influence and short distance from home. It is not bad since commuting actually needs much cost. Choosing school which is closer to home will save time, energy and money. However if that school is not accredited, the time and money spent along studying seems to be waste in the long term because it could become a limiting factor in gaining future opportunities.
Accredited school is not the only factor which will drive student’s success. Personality and characterization are very important too. However a student with good personality who comes from an accredited school is better than the others.

The above example of analytical exposition about accredited school has the following generic structure:
  • Thesis: It is the main topic of discourse in analytical exposition essay. The thesis will Commonly be placed in the first paragraphs. It also functionalizes the introduction of the text. From the text above we see that choosing school will be wiser and safer if it is based on the status of the school; accredited or not.
  • Arguments: Tthe arguments are the heart of an analytical exposition. Without argument(s), it will just talk nothing since a thesis must be evaluated. It does not matter, whether it is true or false facts. Based on the analytical exposition text above, we see that an accredited school graduation will hold better opportunity. Additionally, choosing school based on short term interests seem to be less benefit in the end.
  • Reiteration: It is the writer’s thesis which is re-stated in another word. The purpose is to strengthen the thesis. From the text above, we realize that choosing an accredited school is really important.

Text 2
Opportunity in the Global Financial Crisis

US. financial crisis and its contagion to Europe and the rest of the world could also create new opportunity for Indonesia in term of foreign direc investment and the development of basic infrastructure.
As the US. financial crisis has now spread to Europe, the oil-rich countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Arab Emirate which have accumulated hundreds of billion of Dollars in their foreign reserve, are now reviewing their holding or investment vehicle. They are looking for more diversified investment outside the US and Europe.
Because of unfavorable political developments in Thailand and Malaysia over the past few months, Indonesia which has largely Muslim population could become one of these oil-rich countries' favorite place for foreign direct investment. That wil be true if the conditions, legal and market infrastructure are conducive for Islamic financial instruments.
The government had improved the legal framework with the recent actment of laws on sharia banking and bonds. The long term nature of Islamic bonds could make them the most suitable investment instrument for Indonesia, as these bonds grant an investor a share in an asset along with the cash flows and risks commensurate with such ownership.
The financial crisis that has gripped the globe and weakening economic growth in the rest of the world will serve to the government to accelerate the investment reform measures in order to grab the hidden opportunity in the global crisis.

NOTES ON Generic Structure of the above Analytical Exposition is :
  • Paragraph 1 is THESIS. It introduces the topic of the text which states the potential opportunity behind the global financial crisis.
  • Paragraphes 2 and 3 are the ARGUMENTS, which support to the opinions stated in the thesis above.
  • Paragraph 4 is REITERATION, which restates the thesis in another phrases to point the writer's opinion.

Text 3
Is Smoking Good for Us?
Before we are going to smoke, it is better to look at the fact. About 50 thousands people die every year in Britain as direct result of smoking. This is seven times as many as die in road accidents. Nearly a quarter of smokers die because of diseases caused by smoking.
Ninety percent of lung cancers are caused by smoking. If we smoke five cigarettes a day, we are six times more likely to die of lung cancer than a non smoker. If we smoke twenty cigarettes a day, the risk is nineteen greater. Ninety five percent of people who suffer of bronchitis are people who are smoking. Smokers are two and half times more likely to die of heart disease than non smokers.
Additionally, children of smoker are more likely to develop bronchitis and pneumonia. In one hour in smoky room, non smoker breathes as much as substance causing cancer as if he had smoked fifteen cigarettes.
Smoking is really good for tobacco companies because they do make much money from smoking habit. Smoking however is not good for every body else.

Notes on the generic structure of analytical exposition text above.

As we know that both analytical exposition and hortatory exposition are classified as an argumentative essay. Both present arguments to support the thesis stated in the orientation. This thesis places the writer’s position on the essay. From the generic structure, what makes major difference is that analytical exposition ends with paragraph to strengthen the thesis while hortatory makes a recommendation for readers.
  • Thesis: This pre-conclusive paragraph states the writer’s point of view about the topic discussed. Writer shows himself in clear position of the discussed topic. Paragraph 1 is the thesis of it. It states the fact of the very fatal impact of the smoking habit. Clearly, the writer wants to say that smoking is not a good habit.
  • Arguments: Presenting arguments in analytical exposition text is as important as giving conflict plot in narrative text. The series of argument will strengthen the thesis stated before. In this example of analytical exposition text, paragraph 2 and 3 are the detailed arguments presented in a reporting fact to support that smoking is not good even for smokers themselves. Furthermore, people who do not smoke but they are in a smoking area have the bad effect from a smoking habit as well.
  • Reiteration: The last paragraph actually restates the thesis. It is like a conclusive paragraph from the previous arguments. The last paragraph of  the analytical exposition text above points again that smoking is not good for smokers and people around them. However, smoking is very beneficial to a Cigarette Companies