Information text

We explain to you what an informative text is, some of the fundamental issues that it presents and the main characteristics it possesses.

1. What is informative text?

The informative text is a discursive package that contains written words, which may be being read or not, that contain within their meaning a representation of reality. The text to be able to fulfill its function must have coherence and cohesion, although its extension may vary indefinitely.

The informative text must have a clear question: it must inform about an object or a state of reality . It differs from fiction opinion texts, because these allude to other types of personal or non-existent themes in the material world.

Below we review some of the fundamental issues of informational texts:

• Although the word objectivity is highly questioned by communication theorists, the truth is that attempts are made to differentiate informational texts from others through an appreciation of the quantitativeness of objectivity in the words of An informative text. That is more realistic and truthful, it makes it more convenient for its purpose.
• Informative texts are not only those that appear in the newspapers. There are also informative texts that are technical, scientific, educational or also investigative periodicals.
• Main purpose: Their main purpose is to transfer to the public things or situations that are alien and new, or that their understanding is complex without an explanatory text. The media use news from newspapers, radios or programs; governments use official communiqués; the scientific community uses the magazines and dissemination newspapers; People take advantage of mail and telegram services. These are all daily examples of informative texts that abound among society.

The expository texts do not differ much from the concept of the news, but they are more related to the diplomatic and academic fields, where precisely issues that affect a particular core common to the field are exposed .

In the different houses of study of journalism and communication in general , the different writing and writing techniques that serve the purpose of better communicating an informative text are reviewed often and carefully .

See also: Opinion Article.