The document compares three types of writing - informative, journalistic, and literary. It outlines their main purposes, styles of reading, typical formats, and other key features. Informative writing aims to educate readers, uses a formal tone, and focuses on presenting factual data. Journalistic writing provides information to help readers make decisions through both formal and informal styles across various media formats. Literary writing prioritizes entertainment through dramatic and engaging narratives that are often fictional in nature.
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The document compares three types of writing - informative, journalistic, and literary. It outlines their main purposes, styles of reading, typical formats, and other key features. Informative writing aims to educate readers, uses a formal tone, and focuses on presenting factual data. Journalistic writing provides information to help readers make decisions through both formal and informal styles across various media formats. Literary writing prioritizes entertainment through dramatic and engaging narratives that are often fictional in nature.
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Element/Feature Informative Journalistic Literary
Purpose Its primary purpose is Its purpose is to Its purpose is to
to inform the reader provide readers with provide entertainment and increase his/her information they need to the readers. understanding of a to make decisions certain topic. about their lives, their communities, their governments and their societies.
Manner of Formal reading Formal/Informal Entertaining/Dramatic
Format (where do It is the kind of text It is seen everywhere It can be found in
you find the text?) that shows data, from reports on the songs, epics, definition and news to articles on dramatic narrative, description of the internet. rituals, etc. phenomena.
Other features Informative writing It includes short and It is fictitious and it
consists of Opening, simple sentences that uses figurative general information, relays objective language. It also more specific stories which all relies uses either the first or information, on factual third person summarizing information. perspective and it is conclusion. It also an informal style of utilizes third person writing. and utilizes present tense.