Looking at Peoples Lives: Brush Up on Your Writing Skills

First things first...

Let’s learn to write non-fiction.

When you write non-fiction, you may write:

a newspaper report

an information leaflet

instructions

a diary entry.

a biography

an autobiography

You must decide:

Who will be my target audience?

Who will read this writing?

What is the purpose of my writing?

You may be writing to inform your reader. Information writing will include facts (points that are true) and opinions (points the writer considers to be right and wants you to believe.

Biography

Use a non-fiction writing plan to write a biography.

PARAGRAPH 1

Introduce the subject or the person you’re writing about.

PARAGRAPH 2, 3, 4...

Make point one: the person’s childhood

Make point two: his or her adult life

Make point three: achievements he or she is remembered for.

Organise your writing. Write the points in a logical order as they happened.

Conclusion

Comment again about the main points. As the writer, you can add your opinions saying what you think.

Remember:

Use connectives or conjunctions:

and or but (to join compound sentences)

or, so, if, when, while, after, before, because, unless, until, whereas, although (to join complex sentences)

use pronouns - who, which, whose, what, that

to link ideas use - firstly, later, therefore, on the other hand, at