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The Jewish historian Josephus is one of the major sources of factual, historical information about Jesus.
No, information texts are typically written in third person to maintain an objective and factual tone. Using first person can introduce bias or subjectivity to the content.
An information text is a written piece intended to provide readers with factual information on a particular topic. It typically presents details in a clear, objective manner without personal opinions or biases. Information texts can be found in various forms, such as articles, reports, guides, and textbooks.
Texts written to inform readers include news articles, reports, textbooks, how-to guides, manuals, and encyclopedias. These texts aim to provide factual information, explanations, instructions, or descriptions on a wide range of topics. Their main purpose is to educate and clarify concepts for the reader.
The example is written in a formal and factual style.
Narrative nonfiction is written to retell information or to entertain. It presents factual information in a storytelling format, making it more engaging and enjoyable for readers. Examples include biographies, memoirs, and historical accounts.
There is no information that says this is definitely factual but he did win a poetry prize from the Commonwealth in the same year so it is possible it was written in 1979 or at least written in that decade.
A factual book that is written to teach the reader something is a nonfiction book. Nonfiction is based on facts only.
Wikipedia is an encycolpedia. Its policy is to derive its information from other written and documentable sources. The information from the sources is summarized and arranged in the Wikipedia article. In terms of content, the sources provide as many kinds of information as there are articles in the encycolpedia. The sources all purport to provide factual information (whether they actually do so is another question).
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A. Hopkinson has written: 'Implementation notes for users of the common communication format for factual information (CCF/F)' -- subject(s): Exchange of bibliographic information, Machine-readable bibliographic data 'Modern man reads the Old Testament'