Section: Reasoning Through Language Arts

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Read the following excerpt and choose the option that best answers the question. 

Did you know that 7 out of 10 students have cheated at least once in the past year? Did you know that 50 percent of those students have cheated more than twice? These shocking statistics are from a survey of 9,000 U.S. high school students. Incredibly, teachers may even be encouraging their students to cheat! Last year at a school in Detroit, teachers allegedly provided their students with answers to statewide standard tests.

Which type of essay might this be?

1. Narrative
2. Creative
3. Descriptive
4. Expository

The writer is using past examples to shed light on a current problem. Descriptive essays deal more with scene building and environment. Narration concerns itself more with storytelling elements. The excerpt is much too fact-driven and straight-forward to be considered a creative essay.