2. An information report is a piece of text that presents
information about a subject.
Its purpose is to classify and/or describe using facts about
the subject's parts, behaviour and qualities.
The subject is usually general rather than particular, for
example 'skin' rather than an individual person's skin.
3. When you want to present information about anobject, animal, person or
place. Howdo wewrite information report?
1. Classifications
a.Introduce your topic
b.Tell what the object oranimal is, whoperson is or
where the place is
2. Description
Use paragraphs with topic sentences toorganize the different bundles of
information.
a.Object :size, shape, features, dynamics, where it isused orfound.
b.Person :characteristics, where he/she lives or does, achievements.
c.Animal :appearance, behaviour, habitat, breeding.
d.Places :size, facts, features.
3. Conclusion (optional)
Youmay want to make personal comment about the subject ofthe report
4. A written explanation usually involves three
steps:
1. First, there is the general statement
about the event of thing.
2.Next follows, a series of paragraphs
that tell the hows and whys.
3.The final step is a concluding paragraph.
5. An information report provides readers
with information by providing them with
facts.
Generally, an information report is written to provide
facts about living or non-living object. It can be an
individual object or a group of objects.
Some suggestions are:
Galaxies, Sea Creatures, School, Aircraft, Pollution.
The challenge in writing a good information report is to
provide the audience with plenty of facts and evidence
about a topic.
6. Information reports usually include the following
grammatical features:
1.technical language related to the subject
2.technical use of the timeless present tense
3.technical use of general nouns (e.g. galaxies,
sea creatures, school etc.) rather than proper
nouns.
4.technical linking verbs to describe behaviours of
qualities (e.g. cells are surrounded by membrane)
7. GALAXIES
• A galaxy is a collection of stars and other
astronomical bodies, including planets,
• comets and asteroids, held together by gravity.
• Galaxies come in different shapes and sizes.
These include the spiral, barrel-spiral and
elliptical. Our galaxy called the Milky Way, is
approximately 100.000 light years in the width
and contains over 100 billion stars.
• The centre of galaxies can contain many young,
very hot stars as well as older stars.
• Swirling clouds that have been energized by
magnetic forces also exist in the centre. At
this point in time, no one knows the exact
number of galaxies in the universe.
Structures
Introduction
with a brief
description
Paragraphs
About the
Subject
Conclusion
8. GALAXIES
A galaxy is a collection of stars and other astronomical bodies,
including planets,
comets and asteroids, held together by gravity.
Galaxies come in different shapes and sizes. These include the spiral,
barrel-spiral and elliptical. Our galaxy called the Milky Way, is
approximately 100.000 light years in
the width and contains over 100 billion stars.
The centre of galaxies can contain many young, very hot stars as well
as older stars.
Swirling clouds that have been energized by magnetic forces also exist in
the centre. At this point in time, no one knows the exact number of
galaxies in the universe.
Astronomers are, however
, learning more and more about them everyday.
Grammatical
Features
Timeless
Present
Tense
Technical
Terms
Related to
the Subject
General
Nouns
