Non-Fiction Purposes: Reading and Comprehension: English Language: GCSE (9:1)
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Argue
Challenge or debate an issue or idea with the purpose of persuading or committing someone else to a particular stance or action.
Inform
Communicate ideas and information to the audience
Entertain
Use language in a humorous way. Usually combined with explaining, informing or arguing.
Explain
Gather facts and combine with experience to clarify who or what something is.
Persuade
Use appeals of logic, emotion and character to prove a point and influence the audience to think or do something.
Evaluate
Specific kind of argument that argues for the merits of a subject and judges it fairly.
Examples of writing to Inform
newspaper articles, encyclopedia articles, manuals
Examples of writing to explain
Essays, newspaper and magazine articles, information leaflets.
Examples of writing to persuade
Advertisements, debates, speech, letter
Examples of writing to argue
Letter, article, speech
Purpose
The reason why the text is written
Audience
Who the text is intended for
Format
The type of text that has been written
