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Expository texts

Narrative texts, and

Argumentative texts.

An expository text is intended to identify and characterise experiences, facts, situations, and actions in either abstract or real elements. Expository texts are meant to explain, inform or describe and they are the most frequently use to write structures. Expository structures can be classified into five categories:

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  description, where the author describes a topics characteristics, features, attributes, etc. and gives examples.
  
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  procedure or sequence: the author lists different activities in their chronological order or enumerates items in a numerical order.
  
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  comparison: the author explains how two or more objects, events, experiences, are alike and/or different.
  
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  cause-effect explanation: the author presents ideas, events in time, or facts as causes and the resulting effect(s) in time.
  
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