Below is a list of different types of informational texts, starting with the 10 most common, then a list of 50 total. A Note on Media Literacy: Even texts that claim to be strictly informative are often biased, editorial, or argumentative. Make sure you’re always critically analyzing your sources.

An information source is a communication, publication, document, creative work or artifact that provides information. These are critical to research, analysis, decision making, problem solving and education.

Information is meaning that can be recorded, communicated and used. This includes data recorded by machines such as sensors and knowledge that exists as human understanding. There are also many types of information designed to convert data into knowledge such as a graph or chart.

Information is meaning that can be transmitted, communicated, processed, recorded or understood. The following are common examples of information.