Communication is all about making meaning through language use.

Informative/Explanatory text:

• Attempts to make the reader understand rather than to persuade him or her to accept a certain point of view.
• Provides information about causes, contexts, and consequences of processes, phenomena, states of affairs, objects, and terminology.
• Supports the writer's thesis with evidence and supporting detail.

Concrete details: the specific facts, examples, and data that provide evidence for an informative/explanatory sentence/text.

Formal style: writing that is free of slang, trite expressions and the use of the personal pronoun "I". The writer does not speaking directly to the reader by using the word you.

Organizational structures

Cause/Effect shows why something happened, why certain conditions exist, or what resulted from an action or condition; shows the influence of one event upon another; uses logic and evidence to show the relationship between an event and its cause or an event and it is outcome.

Compare/contrast explores the similarities and differences between two or more subjects; addresses similarities and/or differences between/among topics; organized either to analyze or inform.

Description shows what an item or place is like

Problem and solution presents a problem, and shows how it can be (or has been) solved.

Chronological Order is organized from point in time to another, also known as time order, sequence, or temporal order.

Theses statement addresses the writer's intent; is based on the writer's purpose; appears as the last sentence in the essay's opening paragraph.

Information-Explanatory: Definition
Informational/ explanatory writing conveys information accurately.  The writer’s purpose is to increase the reader’s knowledge, to help the reader better understand a procedure or process, or to increase the reader’s comprehension of a concept.  Information writing begins with the assumption of truthfulness and answers questions of why or how.  Writers draw information from what they already know and from primary and secondary sources.  They must select and incorporate relevant examples, facts, and details. 

What are the characteristics of the informative/explanatory text type?
Informative-explanatory writing conveys information accurately. Writings that exemplify this text type include summaries and instructions. The purpose of informative-explanatory writing is to increase the knowledge, explain a procedure, or to explore a concept in depth.

A written explanation has usually three steps: First there is general statement about the event or thing; next follows series of sentences that tell the hows and whys; final step is a concluding paragraph. Grammatical features: technical language related to subject; technical use of the timeless present tense; technical use of general nouns rather than proper nouns; technical linking verbs to describe behaviours or qualities.

• Know it: The domain and governance of the Skies and the Earth is exclusively for Allah the Exalted.

• And remain cognizant: Allah the Exalted has eternally the power over each and all matters to keep them subjugated by measure and equations. [3:189]

• Realize the manifest: the existentials are distinct manifestations reflecting the Divine Providence and Will evidently:

• the creation of the Skies and the Earth;

• and the alteration-revolving-circular pursuit of the Night and the Day,

• for the men of wisdom who reflect upon apparent relations-equations: relativity to understand the purpose of its creation.  [3:190]