rws Flashcards
▪ traditional text that requires to be read from the beginning to the end.
▪ The author decides the reading path.
Linear text
▪ It does not need to be read from the beginning to the end.
▪ There are multiple reading paths (the reading is not sequential).
▪ It allows readers to find specific information more quickly and efficiently.
Non-linear text
is defined as the social, cultural, political, historical, and other related circumstances that surround the text and form the terms from which it can be understood and evaluated
Context
It is a non-linear way of presenting information.
- means a text that’s gone beyond the limitations of ordinary
text.
- It uses hyperlinks.
- Readers follow their own path, create their own meaning out of the materials that connect topics on a screen to related information, graphics,videos, and music- the information is not simply related to text.
- This information appears as links and is usually accessed by clicking and shifting to different web pages in a matter of seconds and minutes.
Hypertext
It simply means “between text.”
- Julia Kristeva mentioned that,”Individual texts are connected to other literary texts.”
- There are relationships among texts
Intertext
is an arguable statement that defines the goal of your essay.
- It usually states the topic and the stand on a certain issue.
- It also shows what needs to be proved in your argument
Claims
It refers to information not directly stated in the text.
- Readers need to read between the lines to understand the details that the writer is trying to tell
Implicit
It refers to information found or read in the text.
- The meaning is not vague; no further explanation is needed.
Explicit
relate to the statements that can be verified, no matter how difficult.
- They are not dependent merely on a person’s preference, but can be true or false.
- _________ talk about what is or what is not. They say that the certain conditions exist.
Claim of fact
Types of factual claim
Historical
Relational
Predictive
are evaluative statements.
- They are statements about which is better, more important, more desirable, more needed, or more useful.
Claim of Value
are statements that argue that something needs to be done.
- May it be making a law or calling for action. They prescribe a particular course of action that would lead to a condition.
Claim of policy
- is the logical arrangement of sentences to be easily understood by the reader.
Cohesion
refers to how to word units, sentences, and ideas were connected through the arrangement of details according to orders and the use of signal
Coherence
The details are arranged in the order in which they happened
Chronological order