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Informative Writing . Informative Paper . An informative essay is a piece of writing that is written to educate the reader on a certain topic. An informative paper only give factual information To do this you need to be able to research and find reliable information! . Bum . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Informative Writing

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Informative Paper • An informative essay is a piece of writing that is written to educate the

reader on a certain topic.

• An informative paper only give factual information

• To do this you need to be able to research and find reliable information!

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How to Research

• Choose a topic • Make sure you have the questions that you

want to research – Not wikipedia, ask.com, etc.

• Write down the answers to your questions – Write down Use reliable sources to look up

your questions – where you found your information on your

paper

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Example

Poet Name: ___________________________Langston Hughes________________Source:

Article title:_____________________________________________________________________ Author or Website:____________________________________________________________

 

Birth Date: ________________________________________________ Place Born:________________________________________________Source:

Article title:_____________________________________________________________________ Author or Website:_________________________________________________________________

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William Wordsworth

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”

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William Blake

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”

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Robert Burns

“But to see her was to love her,

Love but her, and love forever.”

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Emily Dickinson

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am

with you”

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Sir Walter Scott

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”

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Shel Silverstein

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”

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William Shakespeare

“We know what we are, but not what we may

be.”

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Edgar Allen Poe

“We loved with a love that was more

than love.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“For after all, the best thing one

can do when it is raining is let it

rain.”

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Robert Browning

“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his

grasp,Or what's a

heaven for?”

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Walt Whitman

“What is that you express in your

eyes? It seems to me more than all the

print I have read in my life.”

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Robert Frost

“In three words I can sum up

everything I've learned about life:

it goes on.”

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Carl Sandburg

“The moon is a friend for the

lonesome to talk to.”

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Sara Teasdale

“It is strange how often a heart must be broken before

the years can make it wise.”

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Langston Hughes

“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver

liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”

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Lewis Carroll

“I can't go back to yesterday because

I was a different person then.”

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William Carlos Williams “We sit and talk quietly,

with long lapses of silence,

and I am aware of the stream that has no

language,coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no

speech.”

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Maya Angelou

“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a

song.”

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Billy Collins

“It seems only yesterday I used to

believethere was nothing under

my skin but light.If you cut me I could

shine.”

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Gary Soto

“Because nothing should be wastedIn a world where

sparrows work hardTo prove there is

enough.”

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Naomi Shihab Nye “It is really hard to be lonely very long in a

world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap

its little syllables around you and suddenly there

will be a story to live in.”

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Pablo Neruda

“I love you as certain dark things are to be

loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

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Sylvia Plath “If the moon smiled, she would resemble

you.You leave the same

impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”

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T.S. Elliot

“This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.”

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John Keats“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with

you I could fill with more delight than fifty

common years could ever contain.”

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Practice

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Poet Name: ______________________Langston Hughes_____________________ Source:

Article title:_____________________Langston Hughes___________________ Author or Website:_________poets.org_______________________

 

Birth Date: _________________Feb. 1, 1902_____________ Place Born:__________Joplin, Missouri_______________

Source: Article title:_____________________Langston Hughes____________________ Author or Website:_________poets.org_______________________