Hortatory Exposition

Purpose :

• to persuade the readers or listeners that something should or should not be the case.

Text Organization

• A thesis
• Arguments
• Recommendation

Language Features:

• The use of emotive words (e.g. worried, alarmed etc)
• The use of words that qualify statements (e.g. usual, probably etc)
• The use of words that link arguments (e.g. firstly, However, therefore etc)
• The use of compound and complex sentence
• The use of modals and adverbs (e.g. may, must, should, etc)
• The use of subjective opinions using pronouns I and we

Source: Hortatory Exposition