NON-FICTION

Characteristics

Descriptive: it uses descriptive, vivid, sensory language to describe a person, object, place, or event.

Persuasive: the word persuasive has the work "persuade" in it, wich tells you what this kind of writing is all about.

Expository: it exposes information by telling and revealing information about a person, place, event, object, or process.

Narrative: it uses the elements of setting, characters, conflict, and beginning-to-end structure to tell someone or something's story.

Purposes

Descriptive: the goal of descriptive writing is for an audience to clearly picture, or imagine, what the autor describes.

Persuasive: the goal of persuasive writing is to persuade, convince, urge readers to agree with (and perhaps even take action to accomplish) an author's opinion.

Expository: the goal of expository language is to present information.

Narrative: the goal of narrative writing is to tell a story.

Text Structures

Problem/Solution

Compare/Contrast

Description

Cause/Effect

Sequence/Process

Purpose: Show how one thing leads to another.

Key words: Because; led to; result; consequence; reason.

Purpose: Use details to describe something. May use lists ore spatial organization - left to right, high to low, clockwise.

Key words: Such as; for example; in front (of); above; on top; below; beneath; beside.

Purpose: Identify a problem and offer a solution.

Key words: Therefore; so; because; instead.

Purpose: Reveal similarities and differences.

Key words: Alike; different; however; also; both; neither; similar; unlike; too.

Purpose: Give instructions, describe events in order, support a claim.

Key words: First; second; next; then; after that; during; as; meanwhile; finally.