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Title: Exemplification: Writing Essays With Vivid Examples and Illustrations


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Exemplification Writing Essays With Vivid
Examples and Illustrations
  • English 100 College Writing
  • Darren Chiang-Schultheiss
  • www.wiredprof.com

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Why We Use Examples
  • To persuade skeptical readers who are reluctant
    to accept your viewpoint
  • To show a causal relationship
  • To be more interesting and take the reader beyond
    a telling statement
  • Help to explain or clarify an abstraction
  • To avoid unintended ambiguity

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Forms of Examples
  • Specific names (people, places, products)
  • Anecdotes
  • Personal observations
  • Expert opinions (from outside sources,
    interviews)
  • Facts
  • Statistics
  • Case studies via research

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Example Types
  • Personal-case examples
  • Typical-case examples
  • Hypothetical examples
  • Generalized examples
  • Extended examples

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1. Personal-experience Examples
  • From your own life
  • Lend personal authority
  • Create drama

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2. Typical-case Examples
  • Objective in nature can be especially convincing
  • About an actual event/situation, but you didnt
    directly experience it.
  • Source could be newspapers, magazines, television

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3. Hypothetical Examples
  • Speculative, but be sure its conceivable
  • Might ask the reader to imagine a scenario
  • Be sure to acknowledge that your example is
    invented
  • Ex suppose that or lets for a moment assume
    that

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4. Generalized Examples
  • Composite of the typical and usual
  • Ex all of us, at one time or another, have been
    driven to distraction by a trivial annoyance like
    the buzzing of a fly or the sting of a paper
    cut.
  • Ex when most people get a compliment, they perk
    up, preen, and think the praise-giver is blessed
    with astute power of observation.

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5. Extended Examples
  • Employ many details and specifics
  • Last an entire paragraph
  • Sometimes can encompass the entire essay, but
    must be significant to stand alone as the only
    example

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Effective Examples Should
  • Be relevant Have direct bearing on the subject
  • Be dramatic
  • Be accurate (esp. When using facts, figures,
    statistics)
  • Be non-contradictory
  • Avoid sweeping generalizations at all costs, for
    they do not convince readers

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Effective Examples Should
  • Be representative avoid oddball or
    one-in-a-million types of examples They distort
    and are not honest
  • Ex if writing a paper on the difficulties of
    getting through college and you use the example
    of a student who works 35 hours a week and still
    gets straight As, thats not typical or
    representative. It does not exemplify what MOST
    students experience.

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Effective Examples Should
  • Use an organizational approach
  • Chronological
  • Spatial
  • Simple to complex
  • Emphatic sequence

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Recognize Use Key Words
  • For example,
  • For instance,
  • First, second, third
  • Next, in addition
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