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    This document outlines different text types and their purposes, including informative, entertaining, persuasive, and instructional. It discusses generic and specific text types such as magazine articles, novels, plays, films, speeches, manuals, and instructions. It also covers language features commonly used in different text types, such as positive and negative diction, technical language, informal language, and literary devices. Stylistic elements are also mentioned, like pictures, paragraphs, panels/boxes, and diagrams for manuals.

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    Informative Entertaining Persuasive Instructional: Magazine Articles Books

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    Andrea Maggiore
    This document outlines different text types and their purposes, including informative, entertaining, persuasive, and instructional. It discusses generic and specific text types such as magazine articles, novels, plays, films, speeches, manuals, and instructions. It also covers language features commonly used in different text types, such as positive and negative diction, technical language, informal language, and literary devices. Stylistic elements are also mentioned, like pictures, paragraphs, panels/boxes, and diagrams for manuals.

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    Purpose

    INFORMATIVE explain, describe, review, comment

    ENTERTAINING imagine, explore, descriptive

    PERSUASIVE argue, discursive, advise

    INSTRUCTIONAL explain, describe, order

    GENERIC TEXT TYPES

    SPECIFIC TEXT TYPES

    Magazine Novels/books/poems/ articles/blog/on Plays/recount line comments/repo rt/Review Film review for Comic strip Man of Steel Extract from a novel Magazine article about a Film script museum Report on crisis Blog

    Speech/ leaflets

    Manuals/ instructions

    Green Peace Speech-whaling

    Instruction manual for a new smart phone

    Language/literary terms used

    -Positive diction for a good review, negative for a bad review -Technical language-jargon -informal language + pronoun I

    Speech, Simile, metaphor Speech/imperatives Describing-narrating Past tense AFOREST

    Facts, opinions, Imperatives experts, anaphora Narrating verbs AFOREST

    stylistics

    Pictures and paragraphs

    Panels/boxes Paragraphs Notes for director in bold and capitals

    -Exclamation marks -pauses

    Diagrams to anchor List-steps + goals

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