Writing Workshops - Week 1

Structure 

Explanation writing usually has a logical sequence that enables the reader to build their understanding more easily.  

Orientation – an opening statement/s that identifies the problem, place or issue

Body – points of explanation supported by examples or factual information

Ending – a closing statement/s that draws the writing to a decent conclusion, for example by summarising the main points

Language Features

• often uses time vocabulary - e.g. first, next, following, once, then, finally etc.

• the writing illuminates cause and effect

• written in the 'timeless' present tense (are, turns, happens)

• use of action verbs (falls, rises, changes)

• Words expressing logical relationships between ideas (if ... then/because/so)

• use of non-human participants (the sea, the mountains, the computers, the engine)

• conjunctions (when, then, first, after this so)