Important Type of Text

Some important type of texts are:

• Writing descriptive sentences

• Informative texts/descriptions

• E- mails

• Narrative

• Informative texts: explanations or reports

WRITING DESCRIPTIVE SENTENCES

In descriptive writing, the author does not tell the reader what was seen, felt, tested,
smelled, or heard. Rather, he describes something that he experienced and, through
his choice of words, makes it seem real. In other words, descriptive writing is vivid,
colorful, and detailed.

Because descriptive text is so powerful, many examples of it can be found in famous

In this excerpt from Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, notice the writer's choice of
adjectives, adverbs, and verbs.

"It was a cold grey day in late November. The weather had changed overnight, when a
backing wind brought a granite sky and a muzzling rain with it, and although it was now
only a little after two o'clock in the afternoon the pallor of a winter evening seemed to
have closed upon the hills, cloaking them in mist.“

INFORMATIVE TEXTS/DESCRIPTIONS

Informational text is nonfiction writing, written with the intention of informing the reader
about a specific topic. It is typically found in magazines, science or history books,
autobiographies and instruction manuals. They are written using special text features
that allow the reader to easily find key information and understand the main topic. The
author will do this by providing headers over certain sections, by placing important
vocabulary in bold type, and by using visual representations with captions. These
visual representations can be pictures or even info graphics that include tables,
diagrams, graphs and charts. In some cases the author will even provide the reader
with a table of contents or a glossary to assist them in finding the information easily.
It is important to understand that simply being classified as nonfiction is not enough to
make text informational. Special text features and a special type of vocabulary that
make it informational text.

E- MAILS

An email is a digital message sent electronically from one computer to one or more
other computers. Emails are flexible and can be used for giving instructions, serving as
documentation, providing confirmation, communicating rules and procedures, making
recommendations, providing a status update, making an inquiry.

An email message consists of the following general components:

- Headers: Contain information concerning the sender and recipients. The exact
content of mail headers can vary depending on the email system that generated
the message. Generally, headers contain the following information: Subject,
sender (From), date and time received (On), reply-to, recipient (To:), recipient
email address, attachments
- Body: The body of a message contains text that is the actual content, such as
"Employees who are eligible for the new health care program should contact
their supervisors by next Friday if they want to switch." The message body also
may include signatures or automatically generated text that is inserted by the
sender's email system.
NARRATIVE

It relates a clear sequence of events that occurs over time. Both what happens and the
order in which the events occur are communicated to the reader. Effective narration
requires a writer to give a clear sequence of events (orientation, complication and
resolution) and to provide elaboration.

Any narrative, whether it is a novel, short story or film, shares the same elements.
No matter what the form, the things that a writer needs to construct a story are the
same. By learning these elements of narrative, such as plot, setting and
characterization, writers can strengthen their own stories by identifying where one
of these elements is missing or weak.

Traditional narratives include tales, fables, myths and legends while modern narratives
includes fantasy, realistic fiction, adventure, mystery and horror stories. Narratives are
used in picture books, simple short stories and longer stories with complicated plots.
Some narrative features might also be found in spoken stories, cartoons, comics and
feature.
INFORMATIVE TEXTS: EXPLANATIONS

It is important to explain the reasons why things happen as well as what things happen
in some of these text types. Explanation might link with science and technology topics
to consider mechanical, technological or natural happenings such as why a kettle boils,
how a television works or why volcanoes erupt.

There are three types of explanations.

- Sequential: These detail the stages in an event. Eg: how a caterpillar turns into
a moth.
 - Causal: Details what causes the change from one stage to the next ie: How a
president is elected.
- Theoretical: Details the possible phenomena behind a natural or created
process that is not fully understood. Eg: What caused the Nazi's to lose World
War II.
- Factorial and consequential explanations explain effects and outcomes of
processes. They are more commonly used in upper primary and secondary
contexts. For example:
o Scientific– Eg: Explain the causes of climate change (Factorial)
o Historical– Eg: Explain the causes of World War 2 (Factorial)

INFORMATIVE TEXTS: REPORTS

A report aims to inform and sometimes to persuade. They should be written as clearly
and succinctly as possible, with evidence about a topic, problem or situation.

The challenge in writing a good information report is to provide the audience with plenty
of facts and evidence about a topic without providing personal opinion. If you do
include personal opinion essentially you are writing a persuasive (also known as an
expository) text.
Information reports generally fall into three main categories:

- Scientific Reports: Usually focuses on describing of appearance and behavior

BIBLIOGRAPHY

https://examples.yourdictionary.com/descriptive-text-examples.html

https://es.scribd.com/doc/3245644/TIPOS-DE-TEXTOS-INGLES

https://diccionario.reverso.net/ingles-espanol/mizzle

https://www.skillsyouneed.com/write/report-writing.html