Informational essay

Introduction to 9th Grade Informative Essay

1. Informative Essay AKA: Expository Essay

2. Informative Essay An informative essay is an essay that informs or explains. This type of writing can be seen in laws, comparisons of two things, newspaper articles, speeches, magazines, analysis of literature, and online articles.

3. Informative Essay An informative essay can also pertain to different subjects such as science, math, and history. Since the purpose of an informative essay is to inform or explain, the topic will be nonfictional, which means it will be true.

4. Informative Essay Depending on the topic, an informative can be organized in a variety of ways. Chronological Order Cause and Effect Main Idea and Supporting Details

5. Chronological Order A common way to organize an informative essay is to put the events in chronological order. You have probably seen this type of organization before in cook books or how-to books. The book is explaining how to do something and giving you the steps in the order that you are meant to do them in. First Then Next Last

6. Cause and Effect Cause Effect 1 Effect 2 Effect 3 Cause and effect organization allows a writer to explain why something happened, what the outcomes of an event were, or even what the results were from a certain incident. The organization could even be reversed to where the effect is stated first and then the multiple causes are introduced to explain why the effect occurred. A good number of scientific and history essays will follow this type of organizational structure.

7. Main Idea and Supporting Details Just like you will see in the example essay, some informative essays are organized by introducing a main idea and then giving details to explain more about it. It is important to remember with this organizational structure to make sure that all of the ideas link together and have an overall purpose. Main Idea Detail Detail Detail

8. Informative Essay The best way to think of the informative essay is that you are almost like the “go-to” person or the “expert” on the topic, so you want to share what you know with other people so that they can know more too. Sometimes, we will be asked to write an informative essay without knowing everything we need to know. Then, we refer to other sources (graphs, charts, articles) to help us out and to support our ideas.

9. Informative Essay Let’s look at some 9 th grade informative examples in Canvas.