What's the difference between expositor and expository?
Expositor
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator.
Example Sentences:
(1) The strategy finds McDonnell, once a confident expositor of the government’s duty to shape American domestic life, trying to convince a jury that the “traditional American family”, in his case, summarily failed.
(2) This was an especially significant address, however, for in it Pavlov reviewed the impressions he had gathered during his travels in Western Europe and the United States in the summer of 1923, and he criticised the prevailing ideology of Soviet communism by attacking the ideas of Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, then the leading expositor of Bolshevik Marxism.
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.