Student choice can be encouraged in a number of ways. Students can choose the topic and what facts and information to include. They can also choose the resources they review, as well as the audience.

Expository essays are written in many professions. A briefing in any field to others in the field is done in the form of an expository essay, as is a presentation of the facts in a legal case. Scientific and historical journals are composed of expository writing, as are textbooks and encyclopedias. Doctors and other health care professionals use expository writing both within their field and to communicate medical advances with the public.

There are many possible audiences for position papers: if students are working on a school topic it might be an assembly; if it’s a community topic they might present at a city council meeting or at town hall. Students can submit essays to a newspaper, or they can create a guest blog post. Students can create their own class wiki, or put their papers together into a book on a self-publishing site like blurb.com. Students might also submit a paper to a conference.