Informational

Purpose: to describe a topic

Introduction: introduces a manageable topic with a definition or a classification (Three types of soil are)

Description of Topic: includes factual details, from a variety of sources (books, photographs, websites), to support sub-topics (e.g., attributes, weather systems) sequenced in a specific way

Conclusion: summarizes, or restates, key ideas; may include an impersonal evaluative comment

Special Features

- includes a title, headings, illustrations, maps, or photographs with labels or captions

- connecting words and phrases (also, many other, has a variety of)

- present tense

- language to show comparisons/contrasts (as hard as), definitions (are called), classification (belongs to)