Audience, purpose and form in non-fiction texts
Niellah Arboine explains audience, purpose and form in non-fiction texts
Non-fiction texts
A Writing that is factual rather than invented or imaginary. text is based on facts. It is really any text which isn’t fiction (a made-up story or poetry). Non-fiction texts come in a huge variety of types. You find them everywhere in life, from the back of the cereal packet at breakfast, to a text book at the library. They can range from a newspaper article to a review of a new computer game. They are written for many different purposes, and are aimed at many different people or audiences.
Non-fiction texts include:
- advertisements
- reviews
- letters
- diaries and blogs
- newspaper articles
- information leaflets
- magazine articles
Literary non-fiction
Literary non-fiction is a type of writing which uses similar techniques to fiction. Techniques such as withholding information, vivid imagery and A rhetorical device is a technique that a writer uses to convey to the reader a meaning, with the goal of persuading them towards considering a topic from a different perspective. can all be used. These techniques help to create non-fiction which is enjoyable and exciting to read. Some travel writing, autobiographies, or essays that consider a particular viewpoint are key examples of literary non-fiction. Their main purpose is to entertain whilst they inform about factual events or information.
Literary non-fiction texts include:
- feature articles
- essays
- travel writing
- accounts of famous events
- sketches (normally a fact file profile that gives key information about a person, place or event)
- autobiographies (where you write about yourself) or biographies (where someone else writes about you) - these texts may be written by sportspeople, politicians, celebrities or by ordinary people who aren’t well-known
