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Lesson 1.4 Differences of Informative, JOurnalistic, and Literary Writing

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Lesson 1.4 Differences of Informative, JOurnalistic, and Literary Writing

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Differences of

Informative, Journalistic
and Literary Writing
01 02 03

Informative Journalistic Literary


• to inform or • to quickly inform • to express
present • to entertain • to entertain
information • to persuade • to communicate
• to raise awareness
• to educate
Informative Writing

• present information to readers in


an unbiased manner
• to raise the reader’s awareness
about a topic
• to educate using resources that
are scholarly and reliable
• nonfictional
• thesis statement, facts, restating
of thesis statement
Journalistic Writing

• to inform and to entertain


• can be persuasive without choosing sides
• writing simply but not dull
• using descriptive words only when they
have an impact
• providing the pros and cons of each issue
• represent all sides thoroughly
Journalistic Writing

• the major ideas are placed in the


first paragraph
• the information given in the
succeeding paragraph becomes less
important
• follows the inverted pyramid
structure
Literary Writing

• tries to get the reader’s attention


• connecting with the audience on an
emotional level
• fictional
• its main purpose is to appeal on the
reader’s creative side
Features of
Effective Writing
Focus
• the topic or subject established by
the writer
• the focus is weakened when the
writer retreats from the subject
matter
• must be determined in light of the
method of development chosen by
the writer
Organization
• the progression, relatedness, and
completeness of ideas
• the writer establishes for the reader
a well-organized composition by
forming an effective beginning,
middle and end
Support and Elaboration
• the extension and development of
the topic
• provides sufficient elaboration
• details must be related to the
focus
• supporting details should be
relevant and clear
• insufficiency is characterized by
undeveloped details, redundancy,
and repetitious paraphrasing
Style
• the control of language that is
appropriate to the purpose,
audience, and context of the
writing task
• evident through word choice and
sentence fluency
Conventions
• involve correctness in sentence
formation, usage, and mechanics
• the writer has control of
grammatical conventions that are
appropriate to the writing task

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