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    This document provides information on different types of interpretive texts, including their form and key language features. It discusses feature articles, letters to the editor, and essays. Feature articles are found in newspapers and magazines, use headlines and bylines to engage readers, and employ facts, statistics, quotations and creative language. Letters to the editor outline an opinion, develop an argument logically using examples and rebuttals, and aim to provoke a response. Essays introduce a topic and develop an argument with clear structure and evidence to support a position.

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    This document provides information on different types of interpretive texts, including their form and key language features. It discusses feature articles, letters to the editor, and essays. Feature articles are found in newspapers and magazines, use headlines and bylines to engage readers, and employ facts, statistics, quotations and creative language. Letters to the editor outline an opinion, develop an argument logically using examples and rebuttals, and aim to provoke a response. Essays introduce a topic and develop an argument with clear structure and evidence to support a position.

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    Text Type Form Language Features

    Interpretive Feature Article Attention grabbing headline


    (for a Subheading
    newspaper, Byline
    journal or Introduction to hook readers
    magazine)
    (direct statement, example,
    hypothetical question)
    Expert opinion
    Direct quotations
    Facts and statistics
    Language
    - creative and colourful
    - use of anecdotes
    - figurative language
    - use of first person
    acceptable
    - variety of long and short
    sentences and
    paragraphs
    - present tense
    Interpretive Letters to the Introduction outlines the
    Editor topic and the writers
    (if emailing, use opinion
    the greeting: Body paragraphs develop
    Sir/Madam or the argument logically,
    Dear Sir point by point, including
    /Madam) rebuttal
    Conclusion re-states
    opinion, or is a call to action
    or solution
    Formal language
    Vocabulary appropriate to
    the issue
    Informative but also forceful
    and persuasive
    Use of examples
    Use of statistics
    Dramatic, emotional to
    provoke a response
    Clear topic sentences
    Language
    - complete and correct
    sentences and
    paragraphs
    - present or past tense
    - first person is acceptable
    - rhetorical questions

    Interpretive Essay General introduction


    (Analytical for a Body paragraphs to develop
    specific journal; the argument logically, with
    Reflective for a clear topic sentences, well
    specific journal) explained and developed
    arguments and the final
    sentence clinching your
    argument
    Language
    The following are also part of the persuasive genre, but their form
    and features have already been included under Interpretive Texts
    (above):
    Letters to the Editor
    Speeches
    Feature articles
    Monologue (a long speech by one actor in a play or film, or as
    part of a theatrical or broadcast programme) Not
    recommended by JC!

    Excerpt from the SCSA Glossary on Text Types:


    Types of texts Classifications of texts according to the particular
    purposes they are designed to
    achieve. In general, in the senior courses in the English curriculum,
    texts are
    classified as imaginative, interpretive, persuasive or analytical types
    of texts,
    although these distinctions are neither static nor discrete and
    particular texts
    can belong to more than one category.
    Analytical texts
    Texts whose primary purpose is to identify, examine and draw
    conclusions
    about the elements or components that make up other texts.
    Analytical texts
    develop an argument or consider or advance an interpretation.
    Examples of
    these texts include commentaries, essays in criticism, reflective or
    discursive
    responses and reviews.
    Imaginative texts
    Texts whose primary purpose is to entertain or provoke thought
    through their
    imaginative use of literary elements. They are recognised for their
    form, style
    and artistic or aesthetic value. These texts include novels,
    traditional tales,
    poetry, stories, plays, fiction for young adults and children, including
    picture
    books, and multimodal texts such as film.
    Interpretive texts
    Texts whose primary purpose is to explain and interpret
    personalities, events,
    ideas, representations or concepts. They include autobiography,
    biography,
    media feature articles, documentary film and other non-fiction texts.
    There is a
    focus on interpretive rather than informative texts in the senior
    years of
    schooling.
    Persuasive texts
    Texts whose primary purpose is to put forward a point of view and
    persuade a
    reader, viewer or listener. They form a significant part of modern
    communication in both print and digital environments. They include
    advertising,
    debates, arguments, discussions, polemics and essays and articles.

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