non- fiction

Flowchart nodes

• Non-fiction

• Is a type or genre of writing based on facts and real life rather than a made-up or fictional story.

• Includes any kind of text designed to give information.

• some Non-fiction texts

• There are a range of forms for non-fiction

• Newspaper

• Magazine articles

• Information leaflets

• Non-chronological reports

• Instructional texts

• Descriptive text

• Explanatory texts

• To provide detailed information about the way things are or were.

• To instruct someone on how to do something

• Goals  

• Steps

• Verbs usually at the beginning of each instruction

• To explain how or why something occurs

• Identifying Phenomenon

• Sequence

• Explanation

• Technical language

• To inform or describe about something

• An opening statement

• A description of the subject

• Often written in the third person and present tense.

• Technical classification

• The referent

• The quality and the parties

• The richness and variety in the use of terms