Explain how a recommendation algorithm can influence what a user sees without assuming the algorithm “knows” what the user wants.
18 Expository Writing Prompts Prompts
These prompts create a starting constraint, question, or situation. Use one as written, combine two, or change the audience, setting, objective, or limitation to make a new exercise.
Explain one household or school process that seems simple but depends on several hidden steps.
Describe how a rumor can change as it moves through a group and identify factors that increase distortion.
Explain the difference between correlation and causation with two original examples.
Explain how a public library lends digital books even though there is no physical copy to return.
Describe how one common product reaches a customer from raw material to sale.
Explain why some habits are easier to maintain when the environment changes rather than motivation alone.
Compare two ways of learning vocabulary and explain when each method is useful.
Explain what makes a source primary or secondary using one topic where the classification changes by research question.
Describe how a city’s tree canopy can affect heat at street level.
Explain how a checklist can reduce errors without eliminating the need for judgment.
Describe the stages of revising a piece of writing and why line editing too early can waste effort.
Explain how one rule in a sport, game, or system changes participant strategy.
Describe why averages can hide important differences inside a group.
Explain how a password manager works at a level useful to a nontechnical reader.
Describe how a bill, policy, or school rule moves from proposal to implementation in a system you know.
Explain why a map is always a selective representation rather than a complete copy of a place.
Describe one feedback loop in everyday life, ecology, economics, learning, or technology.