Aspects of Nonfiction Selections day 2

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Aspects of Nonfiction Selections day 2

• CIM R15
• 4th 9 weeks

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Persuasive writing (Traditional)

• Persuasive writing has as its primary purpose
  convincing the reader to adopt some point of view
  or to take some action. Campaign speeches and
  editorials are examples of persuasive writing.

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Expository writing (Traditional)

• Expository writing has as its major purpose
  presenting information. Sometimes this mode is
  referred to as informative writing. Textbooks,
  technical manuals, directions, recipe books, and
  encyclopedia articles are all examples of
  exposition.

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• In an influential work called A Theory of
  Discourse, James Kinneavy offered an alternative
  to this traditional way of classifying writing.
  According to Kinneavy writing can be classified
  based on the standard communication model, which
  views every act of communication as involving a
  sender who encodes a message about a subject into
  a set of symbols and then transmits that message
  to a recipient.

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Message (Subject Matter)
Sender (Writer)
Recipient (Reader)
Based on the communications triangle, Kinneavy
classifies writing into four types, each with a
different aim, or emphasis.
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Expressive writing (Kinneavys)

• Expressive writing has as its major purpose
  expressing the writers state of mind, personal
  feelings, attitudes, ideas, values, or beliefs.
  The emphasis in this kind of writing is on the
  sender of the message.

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Expository writing (Kinneavys)

• Expository writing has as its major purpose
  presenting information. The emphasis in this kind
  of writing is on the subject.

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Persuasive writing (Kinneavys)

• Persuasive writing has as its major purpose
  changing the readers mind or moving the reader
  to action. The emphasis in this kind of writing
  is on the receiver of the message.

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Literary writing (Kinneavys)

• Literary writing has as its major purpose to
  create an imaginary world to entertain or
  instruct. The emphasis in this kind of writing
  is on the symbolson the words themselves and the
  forms that they take.

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On your paper

• Write down the types of writing you just read
  about and a short description of each.

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