WRITING ACTIVITIES
5. TYPES OF WRITING
1. Narrative – the writer describes event or something else he has witnessed. It is usually written in the past tense.
2. Descriptive – the writer describes something as it is or somebody exactly without adding or removing anything. It is usually written in present tense.
3. Story – imaginative or real, it is also a narrative. The tense could be in the past for a past event or present for a true-life story that is still in progress.
4. Argumentative or Persuasive – the writer attempts to convince the audience to drop the opponent points and take his by giving reasons to support his chosen side.
5. Expository – this is also an explanatory writing in which the writer explains how a thing is done or process of doing something.
6. Article – a writer addresses any given topic based on his own notion by marrying subjectivity with objectivity.
7. Report writing – minutes of meetings, experiment, excursion, stewardship in office account.
8. Speech writing – farewell, welcome - this is an act people in certain positions of authority.