Nonfiction

To inform the reader about the natural or social world

• Informational

• Expository

• Narrative

• Persuasive

To convey factual info, including observations and personal experiences

• Informational

• Expository

• Narrative

• Persuasive

Descriptive essays, comparison essays, cause/effect, definition essays

• informational

• expository

• narrative

• persuasive

what do expository and persuasive writing have in common

• aim to present information in a clean and organized manner

• support claims with evidence and logical facts

• topics are based on factual non debatable events

• opinions

what makes narrative nonfiction writing different from the other types

• claims and conclusions

• observations and personal experience

• context, persona, appeals

• uses chapters to organize rather than by topics

Differences between expository and persuasive

• topics leads to writers opinion

• based on factual non debatable information

• aim to present info in clear and organized manner

• support claim with evidence and logical facts

Differences between informative and expository writing

• argumentative or opinion based

• facts

• stories

• context, persona

Stories catch attention, evoke emotions, build trust, action

• informational

• expository

• narrative

• persuasive

novels, short stories, comics, musicals and plays

• informational

• expository

• narrative

• persuasive

Newspaper, articles, almanac, entries, and reference books

• informational

• expository

• narrative

• persuasive