Questions:
1. What is the topic of this informative paper?
2. What is the writer’s claim?
3. What does the writer’s claim suggest about his purpose?
4. Describe at least one example of how the writer develops the topic and supports his claim. Use the informative writing terms (topic, subtopic, claim) from Lesson 1 in your answer.
5. Is the writer's informative paper logical, well-organized, and easy to understand? Why or why not?
6. In writing, what does style mean? Is the writer’s style in the model formal or informal? Use textual evidence to support your answer.
7. When crafting an informative paper, why is knowledge of the audience important?
8. Who might be the writer’s audience in “A Brief History of Photography”?
9. Using evidence from the model, explain what the writer may have anticipated about his audience’s knowledge level of the topic.
10. What might have been the prompt for the informative writing model “A Brief History of Photography”? Give three reasons to support your answer.