Writing to Inform
English Language: Edexcel IGCSE - Specification B, topic 4.2.1
Writing to Inform
When you write to inform, you give facts to the reader. Your job is to provide the reader with information they need. When writing to inform, you should:
Use clear language
- Use clear language to state essential information.
Give facts about your topic
Give relevant ideas
- Try to give relevant, useful, fair and balanced ideas.
Try to be unbiased
- Try to be unbiased – you are giving facts. Try to keep your own personal opinion and point of view out of it.
Answer the four questions
- Answer the four questions: Who, what, when, where?
Writing to Inform in Texts
When you write to inform, you give facts to the reader. Your job is to provide the reader with information they need. You will see examples of writing to inform in the following texts:
Newspaper articles
Biographies
Autobiographies
Instructions
Directions
Recipes
Test yourself on Writing to Inform
What are the four questions you should answer when you're writing to inform?
What should you do when writing to inform?
Why should this sentence NOT appear in informative writing?
Approximately 106,000 people are killed by smoking in the UK every year, which is shocking.Which phrase would be good to use if you are writing to inform your reader about young drivers?
You are writing to inform about food poisoning. What's wrong with the below paragraph?
If a person, who has eaten food, finds themself falling ill, it may be that they have food poisoning. Around one in three people suffers from food poisoning annually.