What are the Different Text Types?
What are the different text types? There are four kinds of text types: Descriptive, Informative, Instructive, and Persuasive texts.
Descriptive Text * A descriptive text is a text that wants you to picture what is being described.
* Descriptive texts usually make use of adjectives and adverbs; use comparisons to help picture the scene (something is "like" something else); employ the reader's five senses (how something feels, looks, smells, sounds, and tastes).
Informative texts * An informative text is a text that wants to advise or tell you about something.
* Informative texts usually avoid repetition, contain facts and give information in a clear way, introducing the subject and then developing it.
Instructive texts * An instructive text is a text that instructs or tells you how to do something.
* Instructive texts sometimes use verbs, placed at the beginning of the sentence that tell you to do something; the language is direct and unnecessary words are left out, use "must" and "must not", use diagrams or pictures to help understanding and use numbered or bulleted points.
Persuasive texts * A persuasive text is a text that is constructed to make you do something.
* Persuasive texts may use repeated words, text in capital letters, exclamation marks, rhetorical questions, an emotional, one-sided argument and humor.
2 Major Classifications of a Text Type 1. What is the purpose of the text? 2. What is the text about?
Sources: http://files.ynada.com/archive/Faigley%20and%20Meyer%20-%20Rhetorical%20theory%20and%20readers%20classifications%20of%20text%20types.pdf http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~adillon/Journals/Towards%20a%20classification.htm
Descriptive Text * A descriptive text is a text that wants you to picture what is being described.
* Descriptive texts usually make use of adjectives and adverbs; use comparisons to help picture the scene (something is "like" something else); employ the reader's five senses (how something feels, looks, smells, sounds, and tastes).
Informative texts * An informative text is a text that wants to advise or tell you about something.
* Informative texts usually avoid repetition, contain facts and give information in a clear way, introducing the subject and then developing it.
Instructive texts * An instructive text is a text that instructs or tells you how to do something.
* Instructive texts sometimes use verbs, placed at the beginning of the sentence that tell you to do something; the language is direct and unnecessary words are left out, use "must" and "must not", use diagrams or pictures to help understanding and use numbered or bulleted points.
Persuasive texts * A persuasive text is a text that is constructed to make you do something.
* Persuasive texts may use repeated words, text in capital letters, exclamation marks, rhetorical questions, an emotional, one-sided argument and humor.
2 Major Classifications of a Text Type 1. What is the purpose of the text? 2. What is the text about?
Sources: http://files.ynada.com/archive/Faigley%20and%20Meyer%20-%20Rhetorical%20theory%20and%20readers%20classifications%20of%20text%20types.pdf http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~adillon/Journals/Towards%20a%20classification.htm