English (Factual Text Type) Flashcards
A piece of written or spoken material in its primary form
A text
Two main categories in a tect
Factual and literary texts
Aim to inform, instruct or persuade using facts and information
Factual texts
Inted to entertain, enlighten or elicit emotion by the creative use of language structure
Literary texts
Provide facts in a way that is educational and purposeful to explain some natural or sociocultural phenomena
Expository text
Is a fact-based that gets to the point quickly and efficiently with the goal of exposing the truth through a reliable source
Expository text
Examples are text books, news articles, language books and the likes
Expository text
A stretch of language that can be understand in context
A text
Any sequence of sentence that belong together conveying a thought
A text
Delivering a context rather than form
A text
A non-fiction text which gives instructions on how to complete the task
Instructional text
Give the steps to follow such as the words to indicate sequences of actions, the use of imperatives, and conditional/purpose adjuncts
Instructional text
Has the key function or communicative goal to inform readers or listeners or viewers about happenings of the day that are observed newsworthy or relevant.
News item
Usually focuses on describing a single location, object, event, person or place
Descriptive text
Aims to engage the readers evoking from their five senses to understand the text better
Descriptive text