What's the difference between explication and expository?

Explication


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.
  • (n.) The sense given by an expositor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Comparison of these hybrid viruses with the parent A(2) strains provided evidence that all the cross-reactivity of the Hong Kong strain with previous A(2) viruses is explicable on the basis of its similar neuraminidase component.
  • (2) The model suggests that the diversity of beat phenotype may be explicable by changes in the timing of switching between active and inactive states of doublet arm activity.
  • (3) The pathogenesis of both syndromes may be explicable by the fact that soluble parasitic allergens bind to cellules of the respiratory tract and induce hypersensitivity reactions under the influence of reagins.
  • (4) Within science, there are forces that weaken genuine scientific discussion, and these need at least to be explicated so that their deleterious effects can be minimized.
  • (5) The confidence that one can have in the basic finding of hyperserotonemia in autism and the potential benefits to be derived from its explication make further research in this area of great interest.
  • (6) Separate groups of rabbits received explicity unpaired presentations of stimuli (tone alone, light alone and shock alone).
  • (7) The reduced response is explicable in terms of excessive numbers of suppressor cells in old spleens that can prevent young immunocompetent cells from responding maximally to the test antigen.
  • (8) The changes in C(eff) observed under conditions of moderately high K-conductance are explicable as a result of potential decrements in the transverse tubules, which would be expected when the wall conductance there is high, and the conductivity of the tubule lumen is low.
  • (9) Seemingly different interpretations of foot malformations are thereby explicable.
  • (10) A series of blood pressure measurements (averaged) improved the predictability somewhat but this seemed to be fully explicable by the greater stability of an average of several measurements as against a single measurement.
  • (11) The metaphor of clinical work as textual explication, however, creates the expectation that there is a text somewhere to be found.
  • (12) The small figure may easily be explicable on the assumption that the natural onset of spasm is chronologically superposed by chance over immunizations which have to be done within the first year of life.
  • (13) The article deals with a rather rare pathology of the 1st cervical vertebra (Kimmerle anomaly), which frequently may lead to rather serious, and sometimes hardly explicable changes in vertebrobasilar circulation.
  • (14) The resultant rise of brain tryptophan was explicable largely by the associated fall in large neutral amino acids.
  • (15) The present findings explicate those of earlier studies in suggesting that male patients higher in social problem-solving ability are not only likely to be more socially competent, but also are more likely to be less severely impaired in terms of psychopathology.
  • (16) Since Freud's (1911) explication of the nature of paranoia, much has been written concerning the dynamic underpinnings of the illness but less have been detailed regarding its manifestations structurally.
  • (17) These angular illusions were not explicable by the addition of tilt illusions (experiment 6), suggesting that different judgmental processes may underlie orientation and angle estimation.
  • (18) This fact explicates the presence of imidoxon only in small concentrations after application of imidan.
  • (19) These results strongly suggest that the increased regional cerebral blood flow induced by BY-1949 is explicable, at least partly, in terms of a preferential elevation of cyclic GMP within the cerebral vasculature, where the endothelium plays a pivotal role.
  • (20) It is argued that while the results show the influence of the visual surround on children's comprehension of 'falling over', this may not be wholly explicable in terms of surround contour matching, as conventionally correct judgements were obtained in the absence of all straight line contours in the immediate surround.

Expository


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Young students, old students, and old nonstudents read and recalled short texts that were in either narrative or expository form.
  • (2) The paper is largely expository and is intended to motivate the development and usage of the regressive logistic models.
  • (3) Undergraduates, 20 women and 25 men, studied an expository text containing only isolated paragraphs.
  • (4) This experiment compared the effects of high-level and low-level postpassage questions, when presented immediately after the passage segment containing the answer to the question, on college students' free recall of expository prose passages.
  • (5) Young and older adults of low or high verbal ability heard narrative and expository passages at different presentation rates.
  • (6) There were 2 specific objectives: (1) to examine the effects of text genre (narrative and expository) and text format (familiar and traditional) on mothers' teaching strategies while interacting with their children around reading tasks, and (2) to examine the effectiveness of mothers' teaching strategies in eliciting children's participation in the joint reading tasks.
  • (7) This expository paper describes two useful tools for the statistical analysis of processes that generate repeated measures and longitudinal data.
  • (8) The instructional program consisted of expository texts, different types of questions and feedback.
  • (9) Younger and older adults read and recalled narrative and expository prose passages of varying propositional density.
  • (10) This study examined the effectiveness of a summarization strategy for increasing comprehension of expository prose in students with learning disabilities.
  • (11) College students studied an expository text following their own self-directed study procedures.
  • (12) We hope to remedy this deficiency with this expository piece.
  • (13) As in the 1975 Marihuana and Health Report, the present chapter is organized for expository purposes around four categories of unlearned behavior: gross behavior; activity and exploration; consummatory behavior; and aggressive behavior.
  • (14) Response latencies on a secondary task provided an index of cognitive capacity used in reading narrative and expository passages.
  • (15) "Yet I fear we must endure many pages of expository narration in which minor characters in whom the reader has little interest reveal details of the crime until the jury inevitably reaches the wrong conclusion."
  • (16) Thirty hearing-impaired and 30 normally hearing students read and summarized two expository science passages that were controlled for the number of topic (main idea) sentences and that had been rated previously for the importance of "idea units."
  • (17) An expository discussion of pertinent hypotheses for such situations is given, and appropriate test statistics are developed through the application of weighted least squares methods.
  • (18) This expository paper starts with a non-technical outline of the latent trait model, gives a detailed analysis of the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and examines points raised by the empirical analysis through computer stimulation.
  • (19) Most of us who have concerned ourselves with models can perceive outlines like those above to catalog the future evolution of the expository function of models.
  • (20) High school youths who were prelingually and profoundly deaf, hearing elementary-school-age youths, and hearing reading-disabled high school youths read expository texts and filled in deleted words and phrases.