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You need to be prepared in order to write successful non-fiction texts in your exam or controlled assessment. Think ahead about content, organisation, accuracy and vocabulary, and consider the genre, audience, style and purpose of your writing.

Overview: non-fiction texts You will be asked to write different non-fiction texts with different purposes and audiences. They may be of specific lengths. You might be asked to:

Describe a person or a place.

Give information or instructions.

Persuade a person or group of people.

Argue a point of view.

Express an opinion on a topic.

Analyse some information.

You will need to think about:

Content: what do you want to say?

Organisation:how should you lay out and structure your writing?

Accuracy: how good is your spelling and punctuation?

Vocabulary: how many interesting words are you familiar with?

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