TYPES OF READING

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TYPES OF READING

• Informational
• Literary
• Persuasive
• Workplace

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INFORMATIONAL READING

• What kind of car should I buy?
• What is happening in Iraq?
• Who survived the sinking of Titanic?

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INFORMATIONAL READING

• Who received the most Grammy awards?
• Was the 2004 Super Bowl game the best ever?

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Work Place Reading

• What are the policies and procedures of my
  company?
• How can I complete the following task?

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Work Place Reading

• How does this machine operate?
• What are the fringe benefits of this company?
• When will I be elgible for a vacation?

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Types of Persuasive Readings

• Editorials
• speeches
• advertisements

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Types of Persuasive Readings

• commentaries
• letters to the editor
• reviews

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What are persuasive devices?

• Rhetorical question
• repetition
• sarcasm/verbal irony
• loaded language

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What are persuasive devices?

• emotional appeal
• appeal to logic
• bandwagon
• celebrities

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Literary Reading

• Novels
• short stories
• poems
• scripts
• plays

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Nonfiction Literature

• biographies
• autobiographies
• essays
• memoirs

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LITERARY ELEMENTS

• Characterization
• setting
• theme

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LITERARY ELEMENTS

• plot
• irony
• symbol

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LITERARY ELEMENTS

• point of view
• language