English (Factual Text Type) Flashcards

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A piece of written or spoken material in its primary form

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A text

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Two main categories in a tect

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Factual and literary texts

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Aim to inform, instruct or persuade using facts and information

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Factual texts

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Inted to entertain, enlighten or elicit emotion by the creative use of language structure

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Literary texts

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5
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Provide facts in a way that is educational and purposeful to explain some natural or sociocultural phenomena

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Expository text

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Is a fact-based that gets to the point quickly and efficiently with the goal of exposing the truth through a reliable source

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Expository text

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Examples are text books, news articles, language books and the likes

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Expository text

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A stretch of language that can be understand in context

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A text

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Any sequence of sentence that belong together conveying a thought

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A text

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Delivering a context rather than form

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A text

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A non-fiction text which gives instructions on how to complete the task

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Instructional text

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Give the steps to follow such as the words to indicate sequences of actions, the use of imperatives, and conditional/purpose adjuncts

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Instructional text

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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.

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News item

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Usually focuses on describing a single location, object, event, person or place

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Descriptive text

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Aims to engage the readers evoking from their five senses to understand the text better

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Descriptive text

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A kind of text with a purpose to give information

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Descriptive text

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A text where the main purpose is to prevent a point of view and seek to persuade a reader

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Persuasive text

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Is organized to include a statement of positions, arguements and reinforcement of position statement

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Persuasive text

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The statement of position expresses an overview of the arguement and reveals the position to be argued

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Persuasive text

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The arguments are a series of points with supporting evidence. Here, the writer tries to convince the reader into believing his/her point of view on a particular issue. There should be atleast three main argument points

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Persuasive text

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A type of text that presents arguments about both sides of an issue

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Argumentative text

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It could be that both sides are presented equally balanced, or it could be that one side is presented more forcefully that the other. It all depends on the writer, what sides she/he supports the most

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Argumentative text

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A good argumentative essay will use facts and evidence to present the arguement, rather than just the authors thoughts and opinions

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Argumentative text

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A good argumentative essay will use facts and evidence to present the arguement, rather than just the authors thoughts and opinions

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Argumentative text

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Attention grabber/hook, background information, thesis statement

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Introduction

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Three body paragraphs (three major arguements

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Body

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An argument to refute earlier arguments and give weight to the actual positions

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Counterargument

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Rephrasing the thesis statement, major points, call to attention/concluding remarks

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Conclusion

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An issue that has been acknowledged by a community as a problem

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Social issue

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Something that prohibits a society from performing at its best

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Social issue

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A condition of common in the society caused by need, suffering, abandonment/injustice

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Social issue