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The first is about the albatross and the cormorant, and the second is about winged lizards. |\n| --- | --- |\n\n\n| | PRACTICE THE TASK\u003Cbr>Write an informative essay about deep-sea creatures. |\n| --- | --- |\n\nAn informative essay, also called an expository  \nessay, is a short work of nonfiction that informs  \nand explains. Unlike fiction, nonfiction is mainly written to convey factual information, although writers of nonfiction shape information in a way that matches their own purposes. Nonfiction writing can be found in newspaper, magazine, and online articles, as well as in biographies, speeches, movie and book reviews, and truelife adventure stories.  \nThe nonfiction topics that you will read about in this unit describe animals in very different environments. The information in the sources is factual.  \nIN THIS UNIT, you will analyze information from two articles on native and invasive new animals in Australia. You will select and organize relevant facts and ideas to convey information about a topic, and you will end your essay by summarizing ideas or providing a concluding statement.  \n\n| | PERFORM THE TASK\u003Cbr>Write an informative essay on adaptations made by wildlife in Australia. |\n| --- | --- |\n\n© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company  \nANALYZE THE MODEL  \nHow have birds and lizards adapted to their environments?  \n© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company • Image Cred its: ©Jim Keir/Alamy  \nYou will read:  \n▶ AN INformAtIoNAl ArtIClE  \nDon’tStart Without a Plan  \nYou will analyze:  \n▶ tWo StUDENt moDElS Two Water Birds: The Albatross and the Cormorant  \nWinged Lizards  \nUnit 2: Informative Essay 35  \nSource Materials for Step 1  \nMr. Sullivan’s students read the following text to help them plan and write an informative essay. As you read, underline information that you find useful.  \nNOTES  \nDon’t Start Without a Plan  \nYou probably have already had challenging writing assignments that required you to research, then plan and write an informative essay. Whether the subject is a science, history, or another nonfiction topic, you need to decide in advance how you will organize your information and present it effectively. Don’t just start somewhere and keep on writing until you have met the page requirement.  \nWhen you write an informative essay, the parts should relate to each other in a clear way to support your topic. A framework for writing can help you focus and manage information and ideas.  \n\n| Framework for an Informative Essay |\n| --- |\n| Introduction\u003Cbr>Hook your reader’s interest and clearly identify your subject. Make your topic and main point clear. |\n| Body\u003Cbr>Discuss each main idea in one or more paragraphs and support each main idea with facts, examples, and quotations. |\n| Conclusion\u003Cbr>Bring your essay to a close by tying your ideas together. Summarize or restate your main idea(s) or draw conclusions. |\n\nDeveloping Your Topic  \nWhen you develop ideas in the body of your essay, you may want to use a text structure such as comparison and contrast to organize information. If you use comparison and contrast, you can follow two different types of organization:  \n36  \n| 1. Analyze | 2. Practice | 3. Perform |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\n© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company  \n© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company  \n1. Point-by-Point If you follow this structure, the body of your essay will have a paragraph comparing or contrasting the student body of small colleges and large universities, followed by paragraphs comparing and contrasting the other two topics.  \n\n| Topic | Small College | Large University |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. Student Body |  |  |\n| 2. Class Size |  |  |\n| 3. 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