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Expository Writing

Expository Writing from the first idea to exam level: every lesson builds on the one before, with a worked example, a step-through diagram where it helps, a quick check and practice that adapts to what you know. Follows Guffey & Loewy, Essentials of Business Communication.

Expository Writing at a glance

What does Expository Writing cover?

Writing Process, Grammar in Context, 7Cs of Communication, Essay Writing, Emails & Memos, CVs & Cover Letters, Writing with AI, Business Letters, Report Writing, Technical Writing & Visuals, Research Writing and Plagiarism & Referencing. It follows Guffey & Loewy, Essentials of Business Communication.

How many lessons does the Expository Writing course on Studious have?

13 units and 33 lessons, from "Writing for academic and professional readers" to "Paraphrasing, summarising and précis". Each lesson has a worked example, a quick check and practice that adapts to what you know, and many have step-by-step diagrams.

Course outline

  1. Unit 1 · Week 1

    The writing process

    1. Writing for academic and professional readers
    2. Pre-writing and mind mapping
    3. Drafting and revising
  2. Unit 2 · Week 2

    Grammar in context

    1. Sentence structures
    2. Tense consistency and agreement
    3. Combining and restructuring sentences
  3. Unit 3 · Week 3

    The 7Cs of communication

    1. The seven Cs at a glance
    2. Clear and concise
    3. Complete, concrete and courteous
  4. Unit 4 · Week 4

    Building an essay

    1. Hooks and thesis statements
    2. Body paragraphs and transitions
    3. Conclusions
  5. Unit 5 · Week 5

    Types of essays

    1. Expository essays
    2. Argumentative, descriptive, cause-and-effect and process essays
  6. Unit 6 · Week 6

    Emails and memos

    1. Professional email etiquette
    2. Writing a memo
  7. Unit 7 · Week 7

    CVs and cover letters

    1. A CV for the Pakistani job market
    2. Cover letters
  8. Unit 8 · Week 8

    Writing with AI

    1. Using AI tools responsibly
    2. Prompt types: zero-shot, one-shot and few-shot
  9. Unit 9 · Week 9

    Business letters

    1. Good news and negative news letters
    2. Persuasive letters with AIDA
    3. Letters to the editor
  10. Unit 10 · Weeks 10–11

    Reports

    1. Purpose and types of reports
    2. The parts of a formal report
    3. Minutes of a meeting
    4. Informal and feasibility reports
  11. Unit 11 · Week 12

    Technical writing

    1. Principles of technical writing
    2. Describing graphs and charts (IELTS Task 1)
  12. Unit 12 · Weeks 13–14

    Research writing

    1. Abstract, introduction and literature review
    2. Methodology, findings and conclusions
  13. Unit 13 · Week 15

    Using sources honestly

    1. Plagiarism and APA referencing
    2. Paraphrasing, summarising and précis

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