Non-fiction paper 2

Non-fiction paper 2

1. Features

   • Audience
   • Purpose
     • Inform
     • Persuade

2. Writing activities based on reading

   • Write a letter
   • Write a speech
   • Write an article
   • Write a section for a text book

3. Skills needed

   • Detailed reading
   • Skim
   • Scan
   • Predict
   • Guess unknown words
   • Understand main ideas
   • Understand text organisation
   • Understand a writer's purpose

4. Types of text

   • Biography
   • Article
   • Travel writing
   • Journal
   • Blog
   • Information leaflet
   • Website
   • Autobiography

5. What examiners look for

   • Analyse the writer's use of language
   • Identify language devices by name
   • Pick out information
   • Use quotes or evidence to support ideas
   • Compare language and structure in 2 texts