Exploring Nonfiction: Author's Purpose and Text Structures

The video tutorial reviews non-fiction, covering its definition, types, and importance. It explains the author's purpose in writing non-fiction, such as to persuade, instruct, or entertain. The tutorial also discusses various text structures like chronological order, cause and effect, and compare and contrast. Additionally, it covers spatial and descriptive writing, providing examples and explanations to help students understand and identify these structures in non-fiction texts.

What is the primary goal of today's non-fiction lesson?

• To understand non-fiction structures and author's purpose

• To read a specific non-fiction book

• To compare fiction and non-fiction

• To write a non-fiction book

What type of non-fiction is an autobiography?

• A persuasive article trying to convince readers

• A story of one's own life written by oneself

• A factual book about a historical event

• A story of someone's life written by another person

What is the difference between an autobiography and a biography?

• An autobiography is about fictional characters

• A biography is written by the person it is about

• An autobiography is written by the person it is about

• There is no difference

What is the purpose of persuasive writing in non-fiction?

• To describe a place or event

• To convince the reader of a particular point of view

• To provide instructions and directions

• To entertain the reader with stories

What type of non-fiction writing is used to explain how to do something?

• Informational writing

• Persuasive writing

• Biography

• Autobiography

Which of the following is a purpose of non-fiction writing?

• To describe imaginary places

• To persuade the reader

• To create new fictional characters

• To fictionalize real events

What does a chronological structure in non-fiction involve?

• Describing events in order of importance

• Listing steps in a process

• Presenting causes and effects

• Arranging events in order of time

Which structure would be used for a manual on assembling furniture?

• Compare and contrast

• Chronological

• Cause and effect

• Sequence and process

Which text structure compares similarities and differences?

• Problem and solution

• Compare and contrast

• Cause and effect

• Chronological order

What is the main characteristic of spatial structure in non-fiction?

• It describes settings or locations without strict order

• It focuses on solving a problem

• It describes events in a sequence

• It provides a step-by-step guide