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Non-fiction text types

Section A always includes two non-fiction texts. The specification expects experience of 8 text types written for five purposes. Each guide shows how to read it analytically and how to write it for Section B.

Autobiography & biography

First-person life writing and accounts of others.

Blogs & journals

Personal voice, informal register, dated entries.

Leaflets, brochures & guides

Headings, direct address, layout features and effect.

Newspaper & magazine articles

Headline, standfirst, report vs opinion structure.

Instructions

Imperative verbs and sequencing - a common RAO4 focus.

Recount

Chronological, past tense - a text type and a writing form.

Reports

Objective, impersonal, classified information.

The five purposes

Argue, describe, explain, inform, persuade - how to spot each.

The third Section A text is always fiction - see the fiction guides.

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