Narrative Elements in Expository Texts

While the use of narrative elements in educational texts seems to be an adequate means enhance students’ engagement and comprehension, we know little about how what extent these are used present-day practice. In this quantitative corpus-based analysis, chart when current Dutch (N=999). have traditionally been considered prime exemplars expository texts, show that distinction between genre is not strict domain: prototypical – particularized events, experiencing characters, landscapes consciousness occur 45% corpus’ texts. Their distribution varies school subjects: while specific people, their experiences often at heart to-be-learned information history narrativity less present content biology geography Instead publishers employ narrative-like strategies make more concrete imaginable, such as addition fictitious characters representative entities.