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• Informational Text is nonfiction writing, written using special text features with the intention of informing the reader about a specific topic
• 9 main informational text structures


  • Definition/Elucidation
  • Description
  • Recount of a sequence
  • Cause-Effect
  • Problem-Solution
  • Comparison and Contrast
  • Enumeration
  • Classification
  • Thesis-Evidence
• Definition/Elucidation explains the nature of something and describes the thing that is being defined
• Description gives concrete details regarding a certain thing, focusing on the appearance, characteristic, and action
• Recount of a sequence presents a chronological narration of a historical period, a sequential description of a process or a procedure
• Cause-Effect records the reasons (causes) and consequences (effects) of events. It presents reasons why a situation is obtained
• Problem-Solution starts by discussing the problem and it will end by having a positive solution
• Comparison and Contrast shows the similarities and differences in terms of the characteristics of any other items, like groups of people, individual people, books, characters, animals, etc.
• Enumeration is a process of making or stating a list of things
• Classification presents the groupings, types, classes, and categories that constitute a concept, presented in hierarchical order
• Thesis-Evidence primarily serves the purpose of arguing a point/position or interpretation
• Mathematics texts use symbols in place of words, such as symbols for operations like "+" for addition, "x" for multiplication
• Business texts have a special vocabulary (jargon), like remit, obligate, loan, collateral, interest, stocks
• Social science texts require knowledge of the jargon of its specific disciplines, like communism, monarchy, executive branch, market, profit, equity, trade relations, migration, social class, discrimination, depression, suicidal, personality, motivation
• Natural science texts use technical terms, symbols (ph, NaCl, and CO2) and abbreviations, and common words like power, pressure, force, work, and impulse have a technical meaning
• Literature and the arts have content-specific terms or jargon (examples: gothic, mood, symbol, balance, mosaic, hue, etc.) and dominant use of connotative language and figures of speech to describe and convey content