Expository Text Organizational Structures
Nonfiction texts, such as news articles, scholarly journals, and textbooks, are classified as expository texts. Authors of these informational texts typically organize their ideas using basic structural patterns, which include:
A
cause/effect, compare/contrast, problem/solution, description, and how-to
B
description, compare/contrast, problem/solution, main idea/details, and how-to
C
description, compare/contrast, problem/solution, sequence or chronology, and cause/effect
D
cause/effect, compare/contrast, problem/solution, how-to, and chronology
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