Facts and Structure

Facts are another way to impact and affect structure for your work. Facts concerning your topic can be used as subtitles, sections, or chapters in and of themselves. Depending upon the subject of your material, the facts can be used as beams in the house of writing also when they function as chapters.

Logical Flow

The writer of nonfiction primarily deals with facts or things that can be verified as factual. In this way, the writing is very logical. In the flow of reason, your nonfiction writing must also be logical. If you have never studied logic as a philosophical or mathematical subject, it is worth a few hours to delve into it to sharpen your ability to reason within your text and to draw solid conclusions in your writing.

There are primarily three types of sentences in the English language and you must have an understanding of each and how they function in the logical reasoning of your reader or editor.

The three types of sentences are:

1. Declarative. This type of sentence simply states something as a fact or declares something to be true. This sentence is an assertion of something as fact.


2. Interrogative. This type of sentence asks a question of the reader or of the material. For the material or communication to continue, the question must be answered.


3. Imperative. This type of sentence requires something of others. It is a command or a commanding instruction which requires a response.

1. Structure. Writing pattern that you should be able to diagram, such as the secondary school teacher's funnel, which gives your writing its physical form.


2. Logical flow. A nonfiction writer's style that is marked by logic and reasoning.


3. Declarative. A statement of fact.


4. Interrogative. A questioning sentence.


5. Imperative. A commanding or instructive sentence.