Building Skills : Writing Explanatory

in this unit, you will be able to :

• understand the structure of explanatory text
• understand the language used in explanatory text
• perform writing wxplanatory text for presentation

in general explanatory genre deals with explaning something commonsense, scientific or technical, and interpreative. in the spite of the different purpose of the three text above, they have the same structures, which are the description stage and explanatory sequencess.

At the first paraggraph you are bound to describe the topic that you are going to explain. Pay attention to the different element white the describing genre as in the Unit three. At the first paragraph, you can to use the relatioanal verb for describing and continue the text to explain using causal or temporal connectives

this is the example of explanatory text