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.