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Thursday, September 8, 2016

Features of explanation writing

Thursday 8 September 2016
Features of explanation writing

Purpose: Explanation writing explains how or why something happens or how something works

Structure

  • A general statement to introduce the topic e.g in the autumn some birds
  • A series of logical steps explaining how or why something occurs e.g because hours of daylight shorten.( Body in paragraphs)
  • Steps continue until the final state is produced or the explanation is complete.
                                        
    Features

  • Present tense verbs e.g many birds fly south.

  • Connectives that signal time e.g then, next, several,months later.                               
  • Causal connectives, e.g because so, this causes.                    

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