AN INFORMATIVE ESSAY

WHAT IS IT? When you read an essay that contains factual and objective information about a topic of particular interest, that is an INFORMATIVE ESSAY.
I’m sure you can figure out that when writing an informative essay you need to inform your audience about a topic. Of course, there’s more to it than that.
You need to give your readers enough information so they fully understand what you’re writing about.

You need to assume your readers don’t know much (if anything) about your topic. This is why you’re informing them. (Makes sense, right?)

Here’s an example. Let’s say you’re into skateboarding, and you’re trying to tell a friend all about it. You can’t just start using terms like dropping in, heel-flips, and half-pipes.

You need to explain the lingo and provide enough information so your friend actually understands the words you’re using!


STRUCTURE in these essays is quite logical. Events are described in chronological order so that the reader follows the developmet easily. Every paragraph refers to a particular aspect of interest about the topic and sentences are connected by means of conjuncions or linking words.

LANGUAGE is rather neutral, standard so that everyone can understand without much effort. The AIM of the essay is to inform about a topic in particular to a wide audience. Abbreviations and jargon is avoided, same to complex grammar.

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