LIFE SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Informational text is a subset of the larger category of nonfiction (Duke & Bennett-Armistead, 2003). Its primary purpose is to inform the reader about the natural or social world. Different from fiction, and other forms of nonfiction, informational text does not utilize characters.

Detailed explanation-2: -So those are the four types of informative writing. Literary nonfiction, which tends to be shorter writing; expository writing, which has written cues that make it easier for readers to scan information; argumentative or persuasive writing, which advocates a point of view; and procedural writing, a step-by-step guide.

Detailed explanation-3: -Nonfiction. Informational text dealing with an actual, real-life subject.

Detailed explanation-4: -biographies. reports. essays. newspapers. magazines. textbooks. instruction manuals.