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McCleary, William J. – 1981
Logical strategies used in informative writing include factuality, comprehensiveness, and surprise value, which provides the focus of the paper and guides both the organization and the thoroughness with which each subtopic must be covered. Failure to teach surprise value is the main problem behind the uninteresting reports that teachers must face…
Descriptors: Descriptive Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Essays, Expository Writing
