EXPLANATION TECHNIQUES

Page for page, you probably write more explanation than any other kind of writing. Instructions, examples, comparisons, accounts of how something caused something else - all are explanation. Even proposals will use explanation to support their advocacy at one point or another.

Specifically, we can identify seven types of explanation.

• Example
• Analogy
• Definition
• Categorisation
• Comparison and contrast
• Cause and effect
• Process analysis

Let's look at each type.