examples of factual texts

• recount - journal, diary, newspaper article, historical recount, letter, log, timeline purpose: to retell a series of events
• Procedure - instruction, recipe, directions purpose: to instruct someone on how to do something.
• explanation - scientific writing, spoken presentation purpose: to explain how or why something occurs.
• description - observation, speech, analysis purpose to describe the characteristics or feature of a thing or a phenomenon.
• Example of recount

  Journal, diary, newspaper article, history recount, letter, log, time line