Perspective and Narrative Points of View
When you are writing a non-fiction text, you may not think that there is much room for being creative.
However, structure is one place where you can still use your imagination to make an impact upon your reader, and make your final text much more effective.
While narrative viewpoint is not a structural feature, the way in which the narrator, or the writer, in non-fiction texts, presents information can strongly impact the structure of a text, so can be good to notice and consider.
Perspective is just another way of saying the viewpoint from which the text is written.
The perspective from which you need to write in the writing section of your exam will be given to you in the question itself.
But how does perspective link to the way a text is related to the reader?
Well, texts which frequently change the perspective from which they are told can mean that it has an irregular structure, and may not be told in a chronological order.
This also happens when a text is told from a third person perspective.