Tip #6: Identifying forms of Text

.Identifying Forms of Text questions are questions that ask you determine what kind of text it is or where it could be found where the text would most likely be found

They essentially ask you to:
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Think of the nature of article
—Show your understanding of different texts

Example
Where would the following passage be most likely found in:

1. —Excerpt from Novel 
   
2. —Textbook 
3. —Autobiography
4. —Essay
   

Strategies

1.Think  of tone & emotions the article tends to affect
2.Consider different texts and their characteristics
  a.Texts tend to be very objective & neutral
  b.Newspaper articles are part subjective, part neutral
  c.Encyclopedia are very factual
  d.Essays are persuasive with more personal tone
3.Use deduction common sense
  a.CAT 4/5 will not use College level passages (ie take off scientfic journals, thesis papers etc)
  b.Biographies will feature one person
  c.Diaries and autobiographies will use 1st person (ie “I…”)