SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ENGLIAH FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING UNIT NINE NTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PAPER WRITING LESSON ONE FUNDAMENTALS OF PAPER WRITING Almost all research papers are expositions. The word exposition quite literally means to set forth a subject. It appeals to the understanding and it is the most common kind of writing, for it is applicable to any task that challenges the understanding--the definition of a word, the way to a street address, the structure of a plant, the mechanism of a watch, the cause of a historical event the meaning of a philosophy. When we study the methods of exposition, we are not following an arbitrary scheme, we are following the ways in which we ordinarily observe and reason about our world. We are doing systematically something that ordinary living, in its hit-or-miss fashion, forces on us, quite naturally, all the timeSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ENGLISH FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING UNIT NINE INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PAPER WRITING LESSON ONE FUNDAMENTALS OF PAPER WRITING (I) Almost all research papers are expositions. The word exposition quite literally means to set forth a subject. It appeals to the understanding and it is the most common kind of writing, for it is applicable to any task that challenges the understanding--the definition of a word, the way to a street address, the structure of a plant, the mechanism of a watch, the cause of a historical event, the meaning of a philosophy. When we study the methods of exposition, we are not following an arbitrary scheme, we are following the ways in which we ordinarily observe and reason about our world. We are doing systematically something that ordinary living, in its hit-or-miss fashion, forces on us, quite naturally, all the time