ABSTRACT
As the term implies, non-chronological texts are organized according to the inherent logic of a subject, with the hierarchical ordering this implies. So a non-chronological text about squirrels would have sections like ‘kinds of ’, ‘habitat’, ‘food’ and ‘predators’ rather than having a ‘day in a life’ chronological or narrative form. Non-chronological texts fall into some broad categories: report and explanation, argument (discussion and persuasion) and reference. These are explored in the chapters that follow.
