Expository Text Structures Narrative vs Expository Begin at

Expository Text Structures

Narrative vs. Expository “Begin at the beginning, ’ the king said gravely, ’ and go till you come to the end; then stop. ’” Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), p. 12 Table of Contents Chapters Headings Graphics Index

Descriptive

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Enumerative Listing There are several reasons why Lewis and Clark do matter—and why we are so drawn to them. First, what happened to the Corps is a great story, brimming with energy and full of forward motion. In extraordinary settings, a remarkable cast of characters encountered adversity of epic proportions and struggled through one adventure after another. Also, the Lewis and Clark expedition resonates because it’s not just a white man’s army, but rather a group of people from many different racial, ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds—a human community as diverse as any in America today. In addition, a close reading of the expedition records reveals that women were a part of the journey every step of the way. Philadelphia seamstress Matilda Chapman sewed 93 shirts for the expedition; women did laundry and sold provisions to the expedition as it over-wintered outside St. Louis; Arikara, Mandan and Hidatsa women were a constant part of expedition life up the Missouri, providing food and friendship; and Lemhi Shoshone women carried expedition baggage over the Continental Divide – and let’s not forget Sacagawea. Finally, this is a story of the type novelist Henry James once called "the visitable past. " We can still float the Upper Missouri and look on what Lewis described as "seens of visionary inchantment. " We can stand at Lemhi Pass and see the distant Bitterroots. We can hike parts of the Lolo Trail and visit Fort Clatsop.

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Starving in a Land of Plenty Fall, 1804 Pvt. George Shannon Lost for two weeks Tried to catch up with keelboat Ran out of bullets Ate grapes Shot rabbit Sat on shore Keelboat arrived first next second until third while last soon then after at that time now during Immediately finally

Comparison/Contrast however but yet despite still even though on the contrary otherwise in comparison on the other hand

Comparison/Contrast

Cause and Effect for this reason in order to because so that therefore thus as a result consequently on account of accordingly

Cause and Effect

Problem and Solution problem solution because since as a result so that

Problem and Solution