What-is-a-Text

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What is a Text?

Genre

Is anything that conveys meanings to the person who examines it.

Text

What is a text?

A category of art, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content

Genre

What is genre?

Read in order (chapters)

Drawings / Ilustrations

Has a plot (beginning, middle, end).

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Can have a moral or lesson for the reader

Read to enjoy

Purpose: Entertain

Fiction

Charts /Graphs / Diagrams

You can skip around the text

Photos / Ilustrations

Based on real information / events

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The information is usually directly given to the reader

Read to learn

Purpose: Inform

Nonfiction

When you read an advertisement, email, or research article, the kinds of words, phrases, writing styles and structures are very different.

Understanding Text Types

3 It helps you develop a shared understanding about how to construct similar texts yourself using appropriate formality and structure.

2 It helps you to locate information you are searching for, more easily because you will be familiar with how different texts are structured.

1 It helps you to understand the purpose of the text.

Different types of texts contain different features. Being able to recognise these various text types and their distinct elements has a number of advantages. Some of these are listed below.

Summarizes, analyses the appeal of a novel, play or film to a broader audience. * comment on a book, play or film * restaurant review

Entertain, inform the reader by telling a story. These texts deal with imaginary or real world. * may contain a message to the reader * novels, short story * newspaper reports, articles

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Narrative

Descriptive

Describes people, characters, places, events and things in an imaginative way. * character description * setting withing a story