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WRITING TO INVESTIGATE

Basic Writing/Investigative writing

Investigative writing 
is writing that is meant to defend a thesis while
exploring various areas of a topic.
Investigative writing sets out to investigate a topic and
report the findings to the reader. It is an extremely
versatile form of writing that can span all kinds of
topics and genres. It can be anything from a newspaper
article to an entire book based on one specific research
subject. Investigative writing provides a chance to help
answer questions for the readers and the writer

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