Purposes of non-fiction writing

Questão 1 de 10

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

Selecione uma das seguintes:

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

Explicação

Questão 2 de 10

1

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

Explicação

Questão 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.
❌
❌
❌

Arraste e solte para completar o 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

Explicação

Questão 4 de 10

1

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

Selecione uma das opções:

VERDADEIRO
FALSO

Explicação

Questão 5 de 10

1

Clique em cada ponto laranja e selecione a resposta correta.

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.

Explicação

Questão 6 de 10

1

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

Explicação

Questão 7 de 10

1

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

Arraste a resposta correta para cada ponto laranja.

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

Explicação

Questão 8 de 10

1

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

Selecione uma das opções:

VERDADEIRO
FALSO

Explicação

Questão 9 de 10

1

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.

Arraste e solte para completar o texto.

so

and

but

because of

despite

but there are

result of

response to

precaution against

therefore

now

thus

Explicação

Questão 10 de 10

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Selecione das listas do Menu para completar o 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 )

	Criado por Sarah Holmes mais de 8 anos atrás

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

Questão 1 de 10

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

Selecione uma das seguintes:

Explicação

Questão 2 de 10

Selecione uma das seguintes:

Explicação

Questão 3 de 10

Arraste e solte para completar o texto.

Explicação

Questão 4 de 10

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

Selecione uma das opções:

Explicação

Questão 5 de 10

Clique em cada ponto laranja e selecione a resposta correta.

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.

Explicação

Questão 6 de 10

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

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

Explicação

Questão 7 de 10

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

Arraste a resposta correta para cada ponto laranja.

Explicação

Questão 8 de 10

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

Selecione uma das opções:

Explicação

Questão 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.

Arraste e solte para completar o texto.

Explicação

Questão 10 de 10

Selecione das listas do Menu para completar o texto.

Explicação

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.