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Text Types - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Explanatory text
        
        Title explains mostly of what the text is about
        
        Explanatory text move beyond providing basic descriptions but looks at the causes and effects of things
      - Instructional Texts
        
        instructions and procedural texts communicate rules and processes
        
        Process is described step by step with it being easy to understand
      - Discussion Texts
        
        The discussion text is to explore more than one point of view but to see others stance on things
        
        Examples are followed with statements
    - - Persuasive/Opinion Writing
        
        Uses evidence and facts to support his or her piece
        
        to convince the reader of the merits of adopting a particular viewpoint
      - Recounts
        
        Recount focus on retelling events and are generally intended to inform and entertain others
        
        Details are used extensively to flesh out the barebones of the event
    - - It Reports about given information and detail about something that happened but without being tied to providing linear accounts
      - Sounds dispassionate in tone
- - - - NARRATIVE
        
        Telling a story is a means to entertain and inform readers and allows for the writer to express themselves creatively and imaginatively.
        
        The purpose of narrative texts is to tell a story.
      - POETRY
        
        Poetry usually revolves around the use of rhyme schemes, rhythmical patterns, grammatical patterns, and line and stanza length.
        
        can be written to entertain, to inform, to amuse, to share knowledge, pass on culture, to advance culture, etc.
      - DRAMA
        
        can also be used to provide social commentary, communicate culture, amuse, and inform too.
        
        Uses dialogues as a primary means of moving the story on.