Types of WritingGenres in Academic

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Types of Writing

Narration

• This is the kind of writing where you get to tell a story

• A story will use literary elements like characters, a setting, a plot and a theme.

Description • Use your senses to describe the people and places you

are writing about. What do you see, hear, smell taste and feel.

• The more detail you can add the better your descriptive writing becomes.

• Create a picture for readers through description so they can step into your story and be a part of it.

• This type of writing is frequently used and may be found in books as well as magazines and newspaper articles.

Exposition

• Presentation of facts, information and explanation of things.

Persuasion • With Persuasive writing, a writer tries to change your

mind or your point of view. • Using facts and opinions, the writer tries to get you

to see things his/her way. • Politics overflows with writing and speeches by

people trying to persuade others to their way of thinking

Argumentation

• Discursive essay containing a proposition and evidence of proof

Genres in Academic Writing

• Essays• Reports• Case Studies• Research proposals• Book reviews• Brief research reports• Literature reviews• Reflective writing• Introductions

• Research methods• Research results• Research discussions• Writing conclusions• Research abstracts• Research

Dissertations & Theses

Reflective Writing• To help us learn from a particular practical experience• To make connections between what we are taught in

theory and what we need to do in practice• Most importantly, we will be able to learn• Through reflection writing, we should be able to make

sense of what and why you did and perhaps help yourself to do better next time

• Written reflection will also serve as a source of reference in the future