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Types of Informative and Persuasive Texts

This document outlines different text types and their purposes, including informative, entertaining, persuasive, and instructional. It discusses generic and specific text types such as magazine articles, novels, plays, films, speeches, manuals, and instructions. It also covers language features commonly used in different text types, such as positive and negative diction, technical language, informal language, and literary devices. Stylistic elements are also mentioned, like pictures, paragraphs, panels/boxes, and diagrams for manuals.

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Types of Informative and Persuasive Texts

This document outlines different text types and their purposes, including informative, entertaining, persuasive, and instructional. It discusses generic and specific text types such as magazine articles, novels, plays, films, speeches, manuals, and instructions. It also covers language features commonly used in different text types, such as positive and negative diction, technical language, informal language, and literary devices. Stylistic elements are also mentioned, like pictures, paragraphs, panels/boxes, and diagrams for manuals.

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Purpose

INFORMATIVE explain, describe, review, comment

ENTERTAINING imagine, explore, descriptive

PERSUASIVE argue, discursive, advise

INSTRUCTIONAL explain, describe, order

GENERIC TEXT TYPES

SPECIFIC TEXT TYPES

Magazine Novels/books/poems/ articles/blog/on Plays/recount line comments/repo rt/Review Film review for Comic strip Man of Steel Extract from a novel Magazine article about a Film script museum Report on crisis Blog

Speech/ leaflets

Manuals/ instructions

Green Peace Speech-whaling

Instruction manual for a new smart phone

Language/literary terms used

-Positive diction for a good review, negative for a bad review -Technical language-jargon -informal language + pronoun I

Speech, Simile, metaphor Speech/imperatives Describing-narrating Past tense AFOREST

Facts, opinions, Imperatives experts, anaphora Narrating verbs AFOREST

stylistics

Pictures and paragraphs

Panels/boxes Paragraphs Notes for director in bold and capitals

-Exclamation marks -pauses

Diagrams to anchor List-steps + goals

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