In the humanities, authors write to inform you in many ways. These methods can be 【B1】______into three types of informational writing- factual, descriptive, and process.

Factual writing provides 【B2】___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 【B3】___ cover, and longer pieces such as an article describing a style of music, which you might read in a music 【B4】___course. This kind of writing provides a 【B5】___for your study of the humanities.

As its name 【B6】___, descriptive writing simply describes, or provides an 【B7】of a piece of music, art or literature. For example, descriptive writing might list the colors an artist used in a painting or the 【B8】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. 【B9】_______________.

Process writing explains a series of actions that bring about a result. 【B10】_______________. This kind of writing is often found in art, where understanding how an artist created a certain effect is important. 【B11】_______________.

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