This is a funny writing that may include personal experiences.
What is humorous writing?
100
This tells the story of real-life experiences.
What is narrative writing?
100
These are works written for newspapers, magazines, television or radio.
What are meida accounts?
100
This is a way a writer choses to arrange and present information in a single piece of non-fiction.
What is organization?
200
This writing addresses an experience and includes the writer’s insights about the event’s importance.
What is reflective writing?
200
This writing presents facts and ideas, or explains a process.
What is expository writing?
200
This identifies a problem and then proposes a solution.
What is probleme-solution organization?
200
This is the writer’s attitude toward the audience and subject. Can be formal or informal, serious or playful, friendly or cold.
What is author's tone?
300
This writing is meant to convince the reader to adopt a particular point of view or take a course of action.
What is persuasive writing?
300
These are texts written to a specific person or organization.
What are letters?
300
This shows the relationship among events.
What is a cause-and-effect organization?
300
This is a writer’s distinctive way of “speaking” in his or her writing. Voice can be based on word choice, tone, sound devices, pace, and grammatical structure.
What is the voice?
400
These contain personal thoughts and reflections.
What are memoirs and journals?
400
These are “blogs” journals posted and frequently updated for an online audience.
What are web logs or blogging?
400
This shows the ways in which two or more subjects are similar and different.
What is comparison-and-contrast organization?
500
This is about a life story written by another person.
What is a biography?
500
This is a writer’s account of his or her own life.