Planning and writing the introduction of an information text about an author

The purpose of the introduction is to engage the reader, introduce the author and provide general information. An information text begins with a heading about the whole text and a subheading for the introduction. There are four main sentence types (a statement, a question, a command and an exclamation). Using a variety of sentence types in your introduction helps to engage and inform the reader. The text is mainly written in third person to inform the reader, with the use of some second person to engage them.