Types of Writing and All about Texts
The first step to consider when you are trying to write a college admission letter
research the college or research about the school
a _______ (or story) is any report of connected events, presented in a sequence of written or spoken words
narrative text
It is what a writer tries to prove by providing details, explanations and other types of evidence.
claim
refers to the process of translating a printed word into a sound.
decoding
a large unit of written language - a group of ideas put together to make a point or one central idea
text
refers to the arrangement of ideas in a text
organization
not expressed not expressed clearly; only suggested; indirectly stated clearly;
implicit
Obesity can cause heart disease.
What type of Claim?
fact
It is defined as the level of understanding of a text/message. This understanding comes from the interaction between the words that
are written and how they trigger knowledge outside the text/message.
comprehension
Writing that is used to try and convince the reader about something.
What is persuasive writing?
refer to the connection of ideas and connection between sentences and between paragraphs
coherence and cohesion
____________means using examples to explain, convince, or amuse. Lending interest and information to writing, it is one of the most common and effective ways to developing ideas.
exemplification text
The congress should pass the "9 year old criminal liability" to lessen the crime rate in the country.
policy
The condition of _________(keeping) something. It could be in the Short term memory or Long term Memory.
retention
The writer tells about how something looks, feels, smells, tastes, or sounds like.
What is descriptive writing?
Two Types of Morpheme
bound and free morpheme
_______________is a statement used to make a declaration or to express strong belief on a particular topic, often without evidence.
assertion
Honesty is the best policy.
value
the learning or developing of a skill, habit, or quality.
acquisition
an extended expression of thoughts or ideas - utterance, talk, speech, discussion, and conversation
discourse
_________is a communication tool that uses visual symbolsto express knowledge, concepts, thoughts and ideas and the relationship between them. Also known as a concept map
graphic organizer
____________is a series of sentences that are organized and coherent, and are all related to a single topic.
paragraph
The following are characteristics of a good claim, except?
A. it should be not argumentative and not debatable.
B. it should be logical C. interesting and engaging
A
TYPES of ASSERTION
Basic Assertion,
Emphatic Assertion
I-Language Assertion