Purposes of non-fiction writing

Pregunta 1 de 10

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What is meant by form, audience and purpose in relation to writing tasks

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Type of text, , who it is written for, reason for writing
Style, people, effect
Structure, tone, effect

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 10

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What is the purpose if the following piece of writing?

We are a father and two sons living in a household without women. We are like an experiment in a satellite, free of normal earthly influences (like guilt, and bleach and sock drawers). We've lived for years now in a whole new all-male institution. Given its inadequacies as a child-rearing unit, I like it. It's so different from a household run by a woman. It's home alone except there are three of us. Here are a few characteristic gender moments.

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Inform
Explain
Advise

Explicación

Pregunta 3 de 10

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Look at this plan for a piece of writing to argue. The candidate has been asked to write a letter to a local newspaper to express their views on the closure of a local school. Complete the plan by dragging and dropping the points that could be made as counter arguments.

Plan:

F = Letter so remember full addresses & postcodes, date in full. Start Dear . . . end Yours Faithfully.
A = Local people, particularly parents and children.
P = to argue that the school shouldn't be closed.

Main argument:
Lots of children attend the school
The next nearest school would mean a drive = more traffic, pollution, dangerous roads
Results have been getting better.

Counter argument.
❌
❌
❌

Arrastra y suelta para completar el texto.

Local population is aging

They can easily make new friends

County council will run a bus

The children could walk there

Results better at other school

Results were worse this year

Explicación

Pregunta 4 de 10

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When writing to argue you must always include points from both sides of the argument

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

VERDADERO
FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 5 de 10

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Haz click en los puntos naranjas y selecciona una respuesta correcta para cada uno de ellos

Verb choice is important when writing to persuade, argue or advise. This text has been written to advise. Choose from the drop-down menus to label the verbs as either modal or imperative.

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 10

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Which of these conventions can be found in all three writing purposes, argue, persuade, advise? Choose all that apply.

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Variety of sentence structures
Emotive language
Emphatic language
Rhetorical questions
Sequential connectives
Imperative and modal verbs

Explicación

Pregunta 7 de 10

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Annotate this advert which has been written to persuade by choosing the correct convention from each drop-down menu.

Arrastra la opción correcta a cada uno de los puntos naranjas

Emphatic language

Fact

Interesting adverb

interesting noun

Personal pronoun

Third person

2 three-part lists

2 short sentences

Identifies with target audience

Formal tone distances audience

Repetition

Rhetorical question

More emphatic language

More emotive language

3 emotive adjectives

3 emotive verbs

Rhetorical Q

Direct question

Explicación

Pregunta 8 de 10

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When writing to inform or explain it is O.K to use bullet points.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

VERDADERO
FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 9 de 10

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Complete the sentences by dragging and dropping the correct causal connectives in the spaces.

1) Water expands as it freezes, ❌ ice takes more space than water.

2) Sales are down ❌ high prices.

3) As a ❌ overnight rain, the pitch is not fit to use and ❌ the match has been cancelled.

Arrastra y suelta para completar el texto.

so

and

but

because of

despite

but there are

result of

response to

precaution against

therefore

now

thus

Explicación

Pregunta 10 de 10

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Selecciona la opción correcta de los menús desplegables para completar el texto.

In any piece of writing, whatever the purpose, it is important to be able to use punctuation for effect. See if you can remember how to use the 7 most common punctuation marks by choosing from the drop-down menus to complete the explanations.

1) A full stop (.) is used to ( indicate that you have finished a point, indicate you need to take a breath, indicate you are about to start a list ) and are about to make a new one.

2) Commas (,) can indicate ( a pause, time, a stop ), ( separate clauses, join sentences, end sentences ), allow the use of more than one ( adjective or adverb, noun or verb, word ), ( separate items on a list, separate sentences, separate paragraphs )
3) Exclamations marks (!) should be used sparingly at the ( end of sentences, beginning of sentences, end of paragraphs ) to convey ( emotions such as surprise, anger, fear, emotions such as love, greed, and envy, emotions clearly and concisely ) etc. .

4) Questions marks (?) are used to ( turn sentences into questions, ask rhetorical questions, grab the reader's attention ) which can be ( direct or rhetorical, long or short, open or closed ).

5) A colon (:) is used to make a ( very definite pause, slight pause, definite stop ) and is most often used ( just before a list, at the end of a sentence, to separate clauses ).

6) A semi colon (;) is used instead of a ( full stop, a comma, a colon ) so that two sentences which ( are linked by theme, are not linked at all, about opposite ideas ) can be joined.

7) The apostrophe (') has ( two, three, four ) main uses. It can be used to ( indicate possession, indicate time, indicate place ) or to show ( when a letter is missing., when a word is missing, when a sentence is missing )

	Creado por Sarah Holmes hace más de 8 años

A resource to help learners understand the conventions of different non-fiction writing purposes. Covers writing to argue, persuade, advise, inform, explain.

Purposes of non-fiction writing

Pregunta 1 de 10

What is meant by form, audience and purpose in relation to writing tasks

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 10

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

Explicación

Pregunta 3 de 10

Arrastra y suelta para completar el texto.

Explicación

Pregunta 4 de 10

When writing to argue you must always include points from both sides of the argument

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

Explicación

Pregunta 5 de 10

Haz click en los puntos naranjas y selecciona una respuesta correcta para cada uno de ellos

Verb choice is important when writing to persuade, argue or advise. This text has been written to advise. Choose from the drop-down menus to label the verbs as either modal or imperative.

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 10

Which of these conventions can be found in all three writing purposes, argue, persuade, advise? Choose all that apply.

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

Explicación

Pregunta 7 de 10

Annotate this advert which has been written to persuade by choosing the correct convention from each drop-down menu.

Arrastra la opción correcta a cada uno de los puntos naranjas

Explicación

Pregunta 8 de 10

When writing to inform or explain it is O.K to use bullet points.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

Explicación

Pregunta 9 de 10

Complete the sentences by dragging and dropping the correct causal connectives in the spaces. 1) Water expands as it freezes, ❌ ice takes more space than water. 2) Sales are down ❌ high prices. 3) As a ❌ overnight rain, the pitch is not fit to use and ❌ the match has been cancelled.

Arrastra y suelta para completar el texto.

Explicación

Pregunta 10 de 10

Selecciona la opción correcta de los menús desplegables para completar el texto.

Explicación

Complete the sentences by dragging and dropping the correct causal connectives in the spaces.

1) Water expands as it freezes, ❌ ice takes more space than water.

2) Sales are down ❌ high prices.

3) As a ❌ overnight rain, the pitch is not fit to use and ❌ the match has been cancelled.