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Writing I-10 Development by Example

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Perhaps you’ve heard a friend complain lately about a roommate. “Tina is an inconsiderate

boor, impossible to live with,” she cries. Your natural response might be to question your

friend’s rather broad accusation: “What makes her so terrible? What does she do that’s so

bad?” Your friend might then respond with specific examples of Tina’s insensitivity: she

never washes her dishes, she ties up the telephone for hours, and she plays her radio until

three every morning. By citing several examples, your friend clarifies and supports her

general criticism of Tina, thus enabling you to understand her point of view.

Examples in an essay work precisely the same way as in the hypothetical story above: they

support, clarify, interest, and persuade.

In your writing assignments, you might want to assert that dorm food is cruel and inhuman

punishment, that recycling is a profitable hobby, or that the cost of housing is rising

dramatically. But without some carefully chosen examples to show the truth of your

statements, these remain unsupported generalities or mere opinions. Your task, then, is to

provide enough specific examples to support your general statements, to make them both

clear and convincing. Here is a statement offering the reader only hazy generalities:

①Our locally supported TV channel presents a variety of excellent educational

shows. The shows are informative on lots of different subjects for both children and

adults. The information they offer makes channel 19 well worth the public funds that

support it.

Rewritten, the same paragraph explains its point clearly through the use of specific

examples:

②Our locally supported TV channel presents a variety of excellent educational

shows. For example, young children can learn their alphabet and numbers from

Sesame Street; imaginative older children can be encouraged to create by watching

Kids’ Writes, a show on which four hosts read and act out stories written and sent in

by youngsters from eight to fourteen. Adults may enjoy learning about antiques and

collectibles from a program called The Collector; each week the show features an

in-depth look at buying, selling, trading, and displaying collectible items, from

Depression glass to teddy bears to Shaker furniture. Those folks wishing to become

handy around the home can use information on repairs from plumbing to wiring on

This Old House, while the nonmusical can learn the difference between scat singing

and arias on such programs as Jazz! And Opera Today. And the money-minded can

profit from the tips dropped by stockbrokers who appear on Wall Street Week. The

information offered makes these and other educational shows on channel 19 well

worth the public funds that support the station.

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In some cases you may find that a series of short examples fits your purpose, illustrating

clearly the idea you are presenting to your reader:

③In the earlier years of Hollywood, actors aspiring to become movie stars often

adopted new names that they believed sounded more attractive to the public.

Frances Ethel Gumm, for instance, decided to change her name to Judy Garland long

before she flew over any rainbows, and Alexander Archibald Leach became Cary

Grant on his way from England to America. Alexandra Cymboliak and Merle Johnson,

Jr., might not have set teenage hearts throbbing in the early 1960s, but Sandra Dee

and Troy Donahue certainly did. And while some names were changed to achieve a

smoother flow (Frederic Austerlitz to Fred Astaire, for example), some may have

also been changed to ensure a good fit on movie theater marquees as well as a place

in their audience’s memory: the little Turner girl, Julia Jean Mildred Frances, for

instance, became just Lana.

What’s the difference between with exemplification and without?

Try these—

*** (Wednesday/ Thursday/ Friday) is the darkest day of the week.

My *** (cell phone/ computer/ alarm clock…) is sometimes unreliable.

No one could be more scruffy than ***(someone you know/ have met before).

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