This document provides a menu of items that can be used to draft the middle section of an expository paper, including facts, explanations, examples, details, and descriptions. It encourages writers to sample different items on the menu to help develop their style and voice, and compares the writing process to choosing dishes at a restaurant.

1. Tool for drafting and revision

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When entering a restaurant, the customer
usually gets a menu from which to pick and
choose the food items they would like to
enjoy. FEED invites you to do the same. You
know you can’t eat everything on the menu,
so you choose what you want. It’s like that in
writing.

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To grow as writers you should eventually
sample everything on the menu to find your
style and voice. This strategy promotes that
sampling.
The items on the menu will help you draft the
middle of your expository paper.

4.  Facts
 Explanations
 Example
(Anecdote)
 Details/Descriptions

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Something you can prove

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Information added to clarify

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A little story
New Jersey is my favorite place for vacation because of the
crabbing. If it’s crab season, we crab. We keep the blue crabs
and the snow crabs, and we let the others go. Sometimes we
catch crabs on hooks, and sometimes we lower crab cages into
the bay. Then we pull them out later. One time my brother
caught a crab so big that it got stuck in the crab cage! The crab
finally got out, but it hurt one of its legs and broke the cage
trying. Poor crab!

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Close ups, what you would see if you were
only five inches away

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Long shots
What you would see if you were several feet
away