You should have completed a draft of this assignment in the activity before this one. If you haven't done so, go back and complete that activity
now.
Write a paragraph to complete a sample expository essay. Then review your
paragraph and the essay as a whole and make changes where needed to ensure that
the style is appropriately formal.
Your assignment should include the following elements:
• A freewriting exercise that shows how you developed your ideas for filling in a
gap in an existing expository essay
• A body paragraph built from the freewriting exercise
• Evidence of editing for a formal style; this includes making big-picture edits, as
well as more detailed proofreading

Consider the text and its central idea. informational text: one privilege that many teens look forward to is the ability to earn a driver’s license. driver’s licensing requirements are not the same in every state. in some states, young people can be fully licensed before their sixteenth birthday. in other states, the privilege to drive has some restrictions until the driver is eighteen years old. in every state, driver education is a required step in earning a license. students might earn a permit, or provisional license, and spend six months to a year driving with an adult in the car. since states are very different based on population, development, and roadways, the laws are different, too. central idea: states makes different laws about licensing drivers with some similar requirements. what supporting detail is most important to include in a summary of this text? teens get excited about learning to drive. in some states, kids can get their license on their birthday. some states are heavily populated, with dangerous roads to navigate. every state includes driver education as part of licensing requirements.