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Analysis of Expository Text.


Assessment Eight


Qu: Can writers of expository texts ever present the ‘facts’ without promoting their own attitudes and values?




Writers of expository texts cannot present the ‘facts’ without promoting their own attitudes and values. Turning Point; ‘Australians choosing their future’ (TP) a book written by Australian sociologist and phycologist Hugh Mackay, promotes his own values and attitudes through the employment of techniques such as selection of detail and point of view. Expository texts are the writers version of ‘fact,’ a text that is shaped to position its audience to accept, acknowledge and even agree with the values and attitudes promoted.

The word ‘fact’ is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as “a thing or event that is (known to be) true, reality.” Mackay’s novel TP devotes a chapter to “Egalitarianism’ in Australia, it is based on fact, however this ‘factual’ information is clearly i...