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Text Type Features

The document outlines the features of various non-fiction text types, including broadsheet and tabloid news articles, magazine articles, formal letters, opinion columns, diary entries, autobiographies, reviews, reports, speeches, leaflets, and informal letters/emails. Each text type is characterized by specific writing styles, structures, and language usage, such as the use of first or third person, headlines, subheadings, and the presence of personal anecdotes or formal language. The document serves as a guide to understanding the distinct elements that define each non-fiction format.

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Text Type Features

The document outlines the features of various non-fiction text types, including broadsheet and tabloid news articles, magazine articles, formal letters, opinion columns, diary entries, autobiographies, reviews, reports, speeches, leaflets, and informal letters/emails. Each text type is characterized by specific writing styles, structures, and language usage, such as the use of first or third person, headlines, subheadings, and the presence of personal anecdotes or formal language. The document serves as a guide to understanding the distinct elements that define each non-fiction format.

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Features of Non-Fiction Text Types

Broadsheet News Article Tabloid News Article Magazine Article Formal Letter
• Written in third person • Written in third person • Written in first or • Written in first person
• Headline • Catchy headline third person • Your address top right
• Subheading • Subheading • Headline • Their name, job title and
• Picture and caption • Picture and caption • Subheadings (often address top left
throughout) • Date top right
• Who, what, when, where, why • Who, what, when, where, why
in first three paragraphs in first three paragraphs • Language and style • Begins “Dear…,”
tailored to audience
• Quotations included • Quotations included • Ends “Yours sincerely,” or
• Picture and caption “Yours faithfully,”
• Sizeable paragraphs • Short paragraphs
• Formal language • Formal language but some • Inset boxes used • Formal language
slang and puns used • Sizeable paragraphs

Opinion Column Diary Entry / Blog Autobiography Review


• Written in first person • Written in first person • Written in first person • Written in first person
• Headline • Date • Often an extract from • Title
• Subheading • Sometimes prefaced a larger work • Details of what is being
• Personal anecdotes included “Dear Diary” • Use of anecdote reviewed, including names
• Personal anecdotes included • Uses past tense of actors/authors etc.
• Rhetorical language included
• Language reflects writer • Personal style • Opinion explained in detail
• Sizeable paragraphs
– usually informal • Informal language • Star rating given
• Formal but personal language

Report Speech Leaflet Informal Letter / Email


• Written in third person • Written in first person • Written in third person • Written in first person
• Title • Begins with formal greeting • Title • Begins with informal greeting
• Subheadings throughout • Sizeable paragraphs • Subheadings throughout • Ends with informal sign-off
• Formal language • Rhetorical devices • Inset boxes • Informal language, adapted
• Facts, figures and statistics • Language adapted to • Images and captions to audience
used audience • Often includes a • Paragraph lengths vary
• Clear, factual conclusion • Memorable sign-off “call to action”

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