NON-FICTION
UNIT 6
WRITING SKILLS: WRITING BETTER SENTENCES
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Look at the examples below, which show you how to upgrade a sentence using interesting sentence structures.
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Look at your piece of writing. Have you used the same type of sentence over and over again? You could make your piece of writing more interesting and engaging by varying the type of sentence you use.
Upgrading technique
New sentence
Go to visit the Galápagos Islands because they’re very beautiful.
Three-part sentence, getting progressively better
The skies are sparkling blue, the sand is glistening gold and the beaches are crawling with beautiful baby turtles.
People who love to explore will love this place.
Three questions and an answer
Feel at home in the wilderness? Love to connect with nature? Have the soul of an explorer? Then the Galápagos Islands are most definitely for you.
On the islands you will find lots of different animals.
Fragments of text in three short sentences
There are hundreds of unique animal species here. Ancient giant tortoises! Spiky marine iguanas! Dancing bluefooted boobies!
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Newspaper Articles
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A newspaper is a written record of current events that is printed daily or weekly. There are different types of newspapers: tabloid, broadsheet and digital.
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A tabloid newspaper reports on celebrity gossip and human-interest stories and uses informal and sensational language. It is usually A3 in size. A broadsheet reports on more serious issues, such as politics, the economy and international conflicts. It is usually A2 in size and uses formal and factual language.
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A digital newspaper is a digital online version of a print newspaper. People generally buy these newspapers by subscription.
The people that report the news in newspapers are called journalists. A good journalist should be objective in what they report, which means they should not put their own personal feelings or thoughts into a news report. If a journalist deliberately tries to sway the audience toward their point of view, this is known as biased reporting. For example, a reporter may personally be in favour of fox hunting and write a newspaper report promoting it. A journalist also needs to make sure that what they are reporting is factual and truthful. They do this by fact-checking their sources and the information they find.
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