All in a Day's Work: Police Officer

All in a Day’s Work: Police Officer is an expository non-fiction text about Police Officers including information on the history of Police Officers, how to become a Police Officer, the responsibilities of Police Officers, tools of the trade, and an interview with a Police Officer.

The text unfolds in third - person narrative in the form of a beginning chapter book including a table of contents, a glossary, an index, a bibliography, some suggested websites for further research, and information about the author.  Some text is in the form of a bulleted list. Information is presented by the main text, captioned photographs, illustrations, diagrams, timelines, maps, tables, and text boxes that highlight definitions and interesting facts.

All in a Day’s Work: Police Officer varies in sentence length and structure with some use of procedural language. Some new terminology such as camaraderie, dispatchers, and search warrants are used in context. Sentences including phrases, clauses, or transition words are often used. A variety of declarative, imperative, exclamatory, and interrogative sentences are used within the text.

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