Passage 2 Directions: Listen to a short passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, listen for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, fill in the blanks with the exact words you hear. When the passage is read for the third time, check what you have written. In the humanities, authors write to inform you in many ways. These methods can be (1) ________three types of informational writing: factual, descriptive and process. Factual writing provides (2) ________information on an author, composer, or artist or on a type of music, literature, or art. Examples of factual writing include notes on a book jacket or (3) ________cover and longer pieces, such as an article describing a style of music which you might read in a music (4) ________course. This kind of writing provides a (5) ________for your study of the humanities. As its name (6) ________, descriptive writing simply describes, or provides an image of a piece of music, art or literature. For example, descriptive writing might list the colors an artist used in a painting or the (7) ________ a composer included in a musical composition, so as to make pictures or sounds in a reader’s mind by calling up specific details of the work. Descriptivewriting in the humanities, particularly in literature, is often (8) ________critical writing. Process writing explains a series of actions that bring about a result. It tells the reader how to do something, for example, explainingthe technique used to (9) ________. This kind of writing is often found in art, where understanding how an artist created a certain effect is important. Authors may (10) ________use more than one type of technique in a given piece of informational writing.