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In the humanities, authors write to inform you in many ways. These methods can be
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into three types of informational writing: factual, descriptive, and process.
Factual writing provides
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information on an author, composer, or artist or on a type of music, literature, or art. Examples of factual writing include notes on a book jacket or
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cover and longer pieces, such as an article describing a style of music which you might read in a music
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course. This kind of writing provides a
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for your study of the humanities.
As its name
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, descriptive writing simply describes, or provides an
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of a piece of music, art, or literature. For example, descriptive writing might list the colors an artist used in a painting or the
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a composer included in a musical composition, so as to make pictures or sounds in the reader"s mind by calling up specific details of the work. Descriptive writing in humanity,
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in literature, is often mixed with critical writing.
Process writing explains a series of actions that bring about a result. It tells the reader how to do something, for example, explaning the technique used to
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. This kind of writing is often found in art, where understanding how an artist created a certain effect is important. Authors may actually use more than one type of techniques in the given piece of informational writing.