[00:00.000]In the humanities, authors write to inform you in many ways.[00:05.538]These methods can be classified into three types of informational writing: factual, descriptive and process.[00:16.651]Factual writing provides background information on an author, composer or artist, or on a type of music, literature or art.[00:28.727]Examples of factual writing include notes on a book jacket, or album cover[00:37.228]and longer pieces, such as an article describing a style of music, which you might read in a music appreciation course.[00:44.680]This kind of writing provides a context for your study of the humanities.[00:49.988]As its name implies, descriptive writing simply describes, or provides an image of a piece of music, art or literature.[01:01.676]For example, descriptive writing might list the colors an artists used in the painting,[01:08.584]or the instrument a composer included in a musical composition,[01:12.816]so as to make pictures or sound in the readers' mind, by calling up specific details of the work.[01:19.640]Descriptive writing in the humanities, particularly in literature, is often mixed with critical writing.[01:28.132]Process writing explains a series of actions that bring about result.[01:35.559]It tells the reader how to do something.[01:38.749]For example, explaining the technique used to shoot a film.[01:43.009]This kind of writing is often found in art,[01:47.246]where understanding how an art has created a certain effect is important.[01:52.033]Authors may actually use more than one type of technique in a given piece of informational writing.