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text boxes are to tell extra facts that don’t fit in the body paragraphs or just aren’t as important. They are to try to expand the writing with less important pieces of writing. In the body paragraphs, there is more of the author’s personality but in text boxes there is more facts.

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The purpose of text boxes are to give you extra information that is useful but it does not fit with the text exactly but it still fits with the text a little. Another purpose of the text box is that if it is taking about something that has a lot of description to it they can say what that means in the text box.

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The purpose of a text box is to provide the reader with bonus information about the topic. They are included in nonfiction writing to tell the readers information that does not quite fit with the main body of the writing. If the topic of the book is an enjoyable topic by your standards then you can benefit from reading the text boxes. That is everything about the purpose of a text box because unless it is an enjoyable topic people skip them.

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Text boxes are very useful. They are used for giving extra information to the reader. I think that they should be used more often. When writing a paper, I think that it would be nice to have those extra facts. However, sometimes they are not read. When I’m reading a book for entertainment, I like fun and interesting facts.

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I think that text boxes are important because they can give the reader background information on the topic so that they can understand something. For example, if someone was writing an informational piece about cars, they could have a sidebar telling the reader why someone invented the first car. This would help the reader understand what inspired the car and why someone wanted cars.

- Miles Dempsey

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Text boxes may not be the main information of the text, but they are sometimes helpful. It takes a branch of information from the main body of the text, and puts more information. Such as with the Titanic Classes piece. For example, it took the idea of 3 classes and expanded on it. The textbox included locations, costs, and items, of/in the classes. This is how textboxes include more information on a branch. They can also take a similar but not exact piece of information and connect them with the original topic. I read a book about naked mole rats, a text box brought the idea of European Mole Rats and compared and contrasted them with the naked mole rats. This subheading still connect the two topics together, bringing more information and making his writing stronger. We may avoid text boxes because of extra information, but it might actually help at some point, which is why we should always read them.

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Writers add text boxes to add extra information. It might be random or cool or it could have anything but it adds extra info. Another reason could be that want to add important info that’s just not in the body of the text. That would give them extra room for other stuff.

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The purpose of a text box is to add more information about the topic. Normally, they are used to inform about a certain topic that was mentioned in the text. They go into more detail. These details are not very important so they are put in a text box. Authors include text boxes to give you more but less important about what they are writing about. If you want more information about the text, you should read them. If the author wants to add a fun fact about whatever they are writing but it is not that important to add in the text, they will add it in a text box. This is the purpose of text boxes and why authors use them.

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The purpose of a textbox is to include more complex information for the reader to know. A text box is still somewhat related to the overall text but with further information about the topic. For example, if a student was reading about littering and the text vaguely states that littering is bad for animals, the student could look at a textbox (if included) about why it is bad for animals. Writers include text boxes to inform the reader about less significant information. This let’s readers learn more facts about a topic.

-Lanora Nye

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Text boxes are used to insert information that does not quite fit with the theme of the page but is important. As it is common for people to skip or skim these, there is not to much valuable information included in them. I myself am a skipper, and the very few times I have read them, I was confused. That is what a text box is for.

Rhyann

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text boxes are usually used to tell the reader (you) more, yet usually unnecessary, information about the topic, usually expanding and giving more bonus information on a topic usually already mentioned, although it’s sometimes used for other things as well, like what something means.

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Text Boxes are very useful for giving side information. There might be important info that does not fit with the text, or is more of a list than a paragraph. You should always try tho read text boxes because they might help explain something you read better. They can also be used for fun facts. This is something that is always fun to read. If you do not like to read the text boxes, try to read a few sentences to see what it is telling you. Yes, if they have really important information, they will usually be in the text. But, this does not mean that text boxes never have anything important. In conclusion, text boxes can have useful information and fun facts.

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The reason I think that text box are important is because they add a bit more information all with the words. Let’s say that there’s a paragraph about the classes on the plane. It describes first class then moves on to middle class. But on the side is a text box with a picture showing a first class box and describes how it works. This provides more information and helps information that doesn’t belong in the paragraph come into the text. That’s why I think text box are important.

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Imagine you are reading a piece of text and all of a sudden, you don’t know anything about the text. This example is what text boxes are for: to give people more information about the text for the reader to understand. Another reason is to put some interesting fact to the book to encourage you to read more. These are the two purposes of the text box.

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Text boxes are useless to over half the population of the world text boxes may give us more info on the topic but it wastes sweet, sweet time, just like this essay! Text boxes are only read by like 2 people in the world, text boxes are skipped over 24-365.

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Text Boxes are in different styles of text for the purpose of teaching you more about what is on the page. I have found that a text box matches the theme of the page, and doesn’t mention anything about something that appeared, say, 5 pages ago or even 1 page ago! They just provide some more knowledge on the topic and sometime maybe some well-needed background knowledge. They are there for the purpose of information.

—Doggo Girly #4 (Aria)

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text boxes are used to say interesting facts that are not exactly completely related. For example, if I were writing a book about whales, I might say something about what they eat. Noah

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By Ellie F.

The purpose of a text box is to add additional information that would sometimes be left out. Readers sometimes need to understand a concept that might be a concept that not many people know about. Text boxes might tell you the names of a species or fun facts about a state. Text boxes are useful if you need to understand a fact or statement.

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I think text boxes are important because if you are reading a book, you are probably interested in that subject, so if you wanted to know more about that subject, you could read the text box and learn more about the thing that you are reading about. Text boxes also mostly include cool facts so they are very tempting to read.

— Angela the hi

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Text boxes aren’t extremely important to the text. They either add fun facts or are used to add something to the text that doesn’t make sense in the text. Even though that is about the only thing text boxes are used for, it is still important. It can add a detail to the text that can be funny or interesting. Lastly, text boxes could be used for organization.

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First of all, I think text boxes are a method of organization. They break the text into smaller sections (boxes) of information. Oftentimes, this info seems “extra” or “optional” and is therefore often skipped over for this reason. Sometimes text boxes contain fun facts, more specific information about the topic, hints of what’s to come, etc. Authors either use them as a tool to: enhance readability, include more information and details, or both.

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Text boxes are often used to compare and contrast, give extra information that is not already in the text, or to show isolated data. It depends on what the author wants to tell the reader. There can be multiple different types of text boxes in a single book if the author wants to give different types of information.

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the purpose is to inform the reader with more information about the topic they are reading about. Ex. Boris da turtle tortoise has a gene malfunction which makes him natural born killer turtle. He is a made up tortoise

It’s me Lucas

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They are used because the author didn’t know how to include them in the main writing pice so they put them off to the side so you still get the info but it’s not in with the main text instead it is off to the side. They are also not extremely important information it’s less important but still good information that is off to the side instead of adding more to the main one you add to the side.

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I think the purpose of a text box is so the reader can know more about the topic. It could lead to many things. It could be a hint to the next topic/page, it could be a way to fit in extra information that couldn’t fit regularly on the page, or it could just be there to get information around in a noticeable way, like if there was too much words on the page, the reader would be able to look at the text boxes as, for example, a summary of the page.

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The purpose of a text box and why non-fiction authors include them can differ. The main purpose of text boxes is to expand and explain. One reason is to compare different parts of what the authors topic or to expand on the pages information and context. 

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The purpose of a text box and why non-fiction authors include them can differ. The main purpose of text boxes is to expand and explain. One reason is to compare different parts of what the authors topic or to expand on the pages information and context. 

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I think that text boxes are important because they give you more information that is not in the main paragraphs. And it gives you information that is like zooming in to the text and giving you so much more great information. So you should at lest go throw the text.

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I think that the author’s include text boxes for extra information. I think that this Extra information is to help explain, and give more supporting information for the normal text so the reader can leave a bad review saying that they got confused about the text. I also think that the author dose think you should have to read the text box. I think that the text box is just a optional read to help the reader understand what the normal text means.

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Text boxes help the reader understand extra information that the author can’t put in their original piece, because it might not fit, or it will be abrupt. FOR example, if you’re writing a piece about frogs, then you can have a fact about frogs that can help the reader understand what you are trying to put in their rock solid head. Although people have the instinct to immediately skip across the piece, reading it actually is helpful, for it might have a fact that you didn’t know about. Let’s say you are reading a book that you have a lot of background knowledge about, however, you come across a text box and you find it boring at first glance, but if you actually read it instead of skipping the poor poor authors work, trying to make a text box only for readers to skip. You actually learn something. So, texts boxes, they are really, really cool.

oh yeah forgot my name WOAH, its Onyekachi!

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The Purpose of a Text Box and Why Authors Include Them In Their Writing

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The Purpose of a Text Box and Why Authors Include Them In Their Writing

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A text box has many purposes. One of them is to add more information in an organized way. For example, when reading a non-fiction text, the author might not put all of the information in the main paragraph(s), they might have to add more information on the side. Another purpose for adding text boxes to non-fiction writing is to compare and contrast different subjects that relate to the topic. For example, authors may want to compare and contrast different types of animals. Authors include text boxes in their writing because they want to make sure that the reader understands everything that they are saying. For example, if the reader doesn’t understand everything, they could go to the text box and find out more. These the purposes of text boxes and why authors add them.

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author include text boxes to add extra information sorted in different sections to make it more organized or to help compare the two sections of writing. Although many authors do not use text boxes, many do. Text boxes are used more frequently in nonfiction texts because nonfiction books are often sharing information or facts and text boxes are often used to provide extra details about the topic of the book. If the story was fiction then the author would not be writing information on a topic, the author would be writing a story that is for entertainment and not information.

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The purpose of text boxes in nonfictional writing pieces is to either give the reader more information about the topic, or they will try to put their writing into different parts so it’s not just one large paragraph that can be a little intimidating. Another reason on what the purpose of a text boxes in a nonfictional writing piece would be because sometimes they want to give you some background information about they topic, or how it could be related to something else. In conclusion, the purpose of a text box in a nonfictional writing piece could be to give more detail, have different parts, or to give you more background information about the topic.

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Text boxes are there so that the author can put in facts or comparisons and contrast in places that it would seem weird otherwise. In places like were you want to share the amount of a certain plant left and your talking about the effect of climate change it would seem weird to put it in the paragraph put if you put it in a text box then it does not seem weird in the slightest.

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The purpose of a text box is to do many things. For example, it can be used to compare and contrast, by using different examples. Along with this, they can also go into further detail about the topic, stating facts that might not be big enough to take up a whole page.

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The purpose of the text box is so that the author of a non-fiction book, piece of text, or article, can put side information that is related to the text but not exactly what they are talking about. They put them in their writing for basically the same reason. So that people can look at the fun fact, or side information.

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The purpose of a text box is to give a reader further information about a subject. It could be compare and contrast with multiple text boxes, or just informational about people, or your subject. Authors include them so the reader can understand what a picture, or the section of a page is about. This helps the reader have more knowledge about the authors topic. This is the purpose of the text box, and why the author includes it!

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Text boxes are ment for telling you maybe about something that you might not know about a big thing like first class or a small thing like a bird. Text boxes are also sometimes mentioned in diagrams and tell you about one of the parts of a diagram like a wing of an airplane or something big. They’re also sometimes mentioned when maybe you want to learn more about something in a diagram hen a sentence like a disown fan tube or the circle in the disown fan.

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Authors often use text boxes to give more information to a reader. For example, they could use text boxes to give a fun fact or did you know. Another reason a writer would use a text box would be to compare and contrast. Finally, a writer uses text boxes to tell you more about how it happened and other certain subjects that they don’t want to put in the text.