An expositive text: Creatures Clone Selves in Face of Danger

Clara Moskowitz, a LiveScience Staff writer, wrote a text titled Creatures Clone Selves in Face of Danger (2008). The article is about Sand dollar larvae and how this animal clone itself when it senses predators are near.

In t text, it can be found several characteristics that correspond with the ones of an expositive text. Firstable, the purpose of the author is to inform what is the reaction of the dollar sand larvae when the predators are close to them.

In order to explain her main idea, Moskowitz expose the information using transitional signals to connect the different sentences, and beginning from a general topic until a specific one. In the same way, the author uses information proved by facts and based in a scientific research conduced for Dawn Vaughn, a biology doctoral student. For this reason, it must be said that the author writes objectively.

In summary, Creatures Clone Selves in Face of Danger is an expositive text because describes in an objective and organize way the process of the reaction of the dollar sand larvae when the predators are close.