Reading 5.3 “Types of Exposition: Persuading that and Persuading to”

Reading 5.3 “Types of Exposition: Persuading that and Persuading to”. In this chapter, the writer, Martin focuses on a type of text he terms ‘exposition’. The characteristic feature of these texts is that they attempt to justify something to provide reasons to support some thesis. In the presentation also, the presenter told about the two types of exposition based on differences in the purposes they achieve. The two types of exposition are ‘analytical’ and ‘hortatory’ expositions.
Other than that, the presenter explained that the former attempt to persuade the recipient that something is true while the letter try to persuade the recipient to do something. Then, the presenter told the audience about what are analytical and hortatory expositions.
Analytical expositions are often associated with academic speaking and writing, while hortatory expositions include texts such as political speeches, letters to editor and office memos designed to change employee behavior. In this chapter also, the writer include about reasoning, personality and metaphor. Lastly, the presentation was quite good but the presenters not come out with the relevant examples to relate with this topic.