ABSTRACT
Reports are written in order to describe the way things are or the way things used to be are known as non-chronological reports. This chapter explains the purpose of non-chronological reports and discusses how they occur, for example in science books in order to describe different types of animals or plants, or in geography books to describe different places or features and in history books to describe the different lives people led. Because they describe the way things are or used to be rather than recounting a series of events in the order they occurred, they are called non-chronological reports. A report follows the three-point paragraph plan that all reports have. They are an introduction, separate paragraphs on particular features and a conclusion. Here the paragraphs have a logical order but are not in time order and each paragraph focuses on one feature of the topic- what it looks like, what it eats, what it does.
