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Four Major Text Types

The document describes and differentiates four major types of text: narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive. Narrative essays involve telling a story from personal experience in first person. Descriptive essays paint a picture with words using sensory details. Expository essays inform the reader using facts, statistics, and examples in an objective manner. Persuasive essays aim to convince the reader of a particular viewpoint using reasoning and evidence.

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Four Major Text Types

The document describes and differentiates four major types of text: narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive. Narrative essays involve telling a story from personal experience in first person. Descriptive essays paint a picture with words using sensory details. Expository essays inform the reader using facts, statistics, and examples in an objective manner. Persuasive essays aim to convince the reader of a particular viewpoint using reasoning and evidence.

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FOUR MAJOR

TEXT TYPES
NARRATIVE ESSAY (TELLING A STORY)

• Writer tells a story about real-life experience.


• Involve the reader by making the story lively.
• It is written in the first person it helps engage the reader
• “I” sentences give readers a feeling of being part of the
story
• It builds the readers conclusion or making personal
statement
DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY (PAINTING A PICTURE)

• Paints a picture with words.


• Describe a person, place, object or even memory of special
significance.
• Strives to communicate a deeper meaning through description.
• The writer should show (not tell)
• Use colorful words and sensory details
• It’s appeal to the reader’s emotions with a highly evocative result
EXPOSITORY ESSAY (JUST THE FACTS)

• Informative piece of writing


• Presents a balance analysis of a topic
• The writer explains or defines a topic, using facts, statistics and
examples
• Based on facts not personal feelings
• Writers don’t reveal their emotions
• Write in the 1st person point of view
PERSUASIVE ESSAY (CONVINCE ME)
• The goal is to convince the reader to accept the writer’s pt of
view
• The writer must build a case using facts and logic as well as
examples, expert opinion and sound reasoning.
• It should present all sides of the argument.
• It must be able to communicate clearly and without
equivocation why a certain position is correct.
TASK 3: WRITE TRUE IF THE STATEMENT IS
TRUE AND FALSE IF NOT.

________1. Type of text depends on the purpose.


________2. A descriptive text paints a picture in the mind of the reader using
5 senses.
________3. An expository text informs the reader based on facts and
statistics.
________4. A narrative text encourages the reader to do a certain action.
________5. A persuasive text delivers two sides of an issue the affirmative
and the negative sides.
IDENTIFY WHICH TYPE OF ESSAY IS BEING
DESCRIBED. (EXPOSITORY), (NARRATIVE),
(DESCRIPTIVE) AND (PERSUASIVE).

1. ______________ A story about the time you got lost at


Disneyland
2. ______________ A web page telling how to create a web page
3. ______________ The Harry Potter books
4. ______________ A letter to the governor explaining why the tax
increase is a bad idea
5. ______________ Writing in which you record details of a trip
taken
READ AND ANALYSE THE FOLLOWING ESSAYS
CAREFULLY. WRITE E (EXPOSITORY), N
(NARRATIVE), D (DESCRIPTIVE) AND P
(PERSUASIVE) ON THE GIVEN SPACE.

_____________ 1. Many people associate the taste of


pumpkins with fall. In October, companies from
Starbucks to McDonalds roll out their pumpkin-
flavored lattes and desserts. Here is how to make an
easy pumpkin pie using only five ingredients. First,
make sure you have all of the ingredients.
READ AND ANALYSE THE FOLLOWING ESSAYS
CAREFULLY. WRITE E (EXPOSITORY), N
(NARRATIVE), D (DESCRIPTIVE) AND P
(PERSUASIVE) ON THE GIVEN SPACE.
_____________ 2. The iPhone 6 is unexpectedly light.
While size of its screen is bigger than those of the iPhones
that came before, it is thinner, and its smooth, rounded
body is made of aluminum, stainless steel, and glass. The
casing comes in a whitish silver, gold, or a color the
company calls “space gray,” the color of the lead of a
pencil, with darker gray accents.
READ AND ANALYSE THE FOLLOWING ESSAYS
CAREFULLY. WRITE E (EXPOSITORY), N
(NARRATIVE), D (DESCRIPTIVE) AND P
(PERSUASIVE) ON THE GIVEN SPACE.
_____________ 3. Following the 2012 Olympic Games
hosted in London, the UK Trade and Investment
department reported a £9.9 billion boost to the economy.
Although it is expensive to host the Olympics, if done
right, they can provide real jobs and economic growth.
This city should consider placing a bid to host the
Olympics.
READ AND ANALYSE THE FOLLOWING ESSAYS
CAREFULLY. WRITE E (EXPOSITORY), N
(NARRATIVE), D (DESCRIPTIVE) AND P
(PERSUASIVE) ON THE GIVEN SPACE.

•_____________ 3. I was on vacation in


Ganapatipule, which is a town on the coast on the
west side of India, situated right on the Indian
Ocean. I was with my long-time friend, Janu, and his
mother, staying in a hotel for a few days.

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