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ARGUMENTATIVE AND EXPOSITORY PARAGRAPHS
The function of "expository" essays is to describe, analyse or explain something. You are
expected to demonstrate understanding of a topic, or at least that you have covered it adequately.
You may find it useful to use illustrations or examples to answer a question. However, it is
unusual in the Social Sciences to be asked questions which only ask you to write in an expository
manner.
See Essay-writing "styles" for a breakdown of this type
Argumentative
Argumentative types of assignment are more intellectually and linguistically challenging than the
expository type - and much more common in the Social Sciences.
Argument here consists loosely of
debating differences of interpretation, or
evaluating both sides of an argument.
Example Argumentative Paragraphs
1. Divorce is a kind of marital break down . It refers to the legal termination of a marriage.
Despite minor fluctuations, there has been a rise in divorce rate in modern, industrialised
societies; e.g. in S.E. Asian and Europe in 1991, 859 petition for divorce were filed in
England and Wales of which some three quarters were granted a decree absolute. But,
can we regard this phenomenon as an indication that people are becoming selfish and
irresponsible? In fact, what are the meaning of selfish and irresponsible?

Example Expository Paragraphs
1. With regard to the nature of buying behaviour, the behaviourists consider it as a response
to a reinforcer. One of the famous behaviourists, Alhadeff (1982), represents buying
behaviour as the outcome of the relative strengths of conflicting approach and escape
behaviours, each of which is determined by its own reinforcers. Etc. On the other hand, the
cognitive perspective views buying behaviour as more voluntary, rational and intentional
in nature rather than mere response to the environment. People buy what they want to buy
and their reasons for buying embrace "whatever consideration induced, inclined, weighed
with or decided them to buy" (Beck, 1975). Etc.