jueves, 22 de enero de 2009

THE “CREATURES CLONE SELVES IN FACE OF DANGER” TEXT IS EXPOSITIVE… BUT WHY?


First of all, because the purpose of the journalist in the
“Creatures clone selves in face of danger” text is just to inform about the response of sand dollar larvae when they sense predators are near.

The expositive texts are characterized for transmitting information to a specific audience by means of objective data and explanations. In this case, the text reports an experiment conducted by a scientist that proved sand dollar larvae create clones of themselves when they are exposed to danger.

For this reason, it can be asserted that the information given in the text is objective, because the journalist
quotes the results of a research work conducted by Dawn Vaughn, a biology doctoral student at the University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Laboratories, who explains and describes what he discovered in his experiment.

At the same time, given that the text is related to a science topic, the
audience is restricted to those who are interested in the subject.

On the other hand, it can be said that the “Creatures clone selves in face of danger” text is expositive due to the way is written. The information is given by the journalist
step by step and using sequence connectors (such as after, eventually, additionally, among others) to attach one idea with another one.

Besides, the journalist writes in third person. This aspect confirms that the text is not an opinion of the author. On the contrary, it is based on the result of a scientific experiment conducted by a trustful person: Dawn Vaughn, a biology doctoral student.

To conclude, the “Creatures clone selves in face of danger” text definitely does have the characteristics of an expositive text having, as a result, a document that contributes to amplify the knowledge about the sand dollar larvae; not only using objective data –based in a specialist’s experiment-, but also describing the entire process.

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