Text As Connected Discourse PDF

How many words can you make? How many phrases can you make? down a under time in table middle very on my of happy fo...

How many words can you make? How many phrases can you make? down a under time in table middle very on my of happy for bag night morning friends the long with hill school Join phrases to create sentences. you’ll never know a narrow path the tree provides she chops onions we walk along unless you try she always cries on the moon I tried to imagine life plenty of shades  At the end of the lesson, the learners should be able to: recognize the define text importance of differentiate text understanding a from discourse and text as connected through a discourse; discourse in graphic reading and writing organizer. texts;  “Texere” = means to weave is a large unit of written language coherent set of words, phrases, and sentences that express one main point or central idea. follows a structure that requires the ideas to be related to one another. Yesterday, I got a new coat. My new coat has a blue hood and red sleeves. My coat is very fuzzy so I can stay warm. The zipper of my coat is green; on the back, there is a picture of a snow man. I will wear my coat to school. The frobnitz glorped a splunge of floopy doohickeys onto the gleepglorp, causing a considerable amount of flibbertigibbet to erupt from the zizzlewick. The flumphing sprockets, usually quite placid, began to quibble and quibble, their quibbling escalating into a full-blown quibble-fest. Meanwhile, the grobnar, oblivious to the chaos, continued to hum its monotonous hum, a hum that somehow seemed to amplify the overall sense of utter nonsensicality. It was a dark and stormy night. In her attic bedroom Margaret Murry, wrapped in an old patchwork quilt, sat on the floor of her bed and watched the trees tossing in the frenzied lashing of the wind.  “Discursus” Medieval Latin = it means argument Late Latin = it means conversation or speech “exchange of ideas” a formal and often lengthy discussion of a topic arranged in an organized and logical manner speech and/or written how language is used to convey meanings 1. A critique which states a writer’s opinion about the good and the bad parts of another piece of writing or a work of art. 2. A diary entry that is a daily record of someone’s personal experiences and thoughts 1. To inform - provide a descriptive and comprehensive discussion on the topic. 2. To persuade - aims to convince the readers that the proposed claim or solution is better than any other proposal. 3. To entertain - aims to amuse or provides a source of entertainment for its readers. Analyzing a discourse is usually contextual. The reader tries to consider several factors that may have influenced the writer (biases, philosophy, educational and professional background, etc.) to make certain claims. Factors like: Social Culture Experiences environment Text Discourse - is made up of - is made up of sentences having the utterances having the property of property of coherence grammatical cohesion Text Discourse - a written form of - a spoken, written, communication visual, or audial form, information, which is communicating a non-interactive in information that is nature interactive in nature Text Discourse - is defined in terms of - is viewed as a its being a physical process product -meaning is derived through the reader’s -meaning is not found interaction with the in text text Text Discourse - written record of an - language in action interaction - dialogues, written - reports, essay, argument conversations, articles, documents, debates, interactions research, books A text is a connected discourse because the individual parts of a text (sentences, paragraphs, etc.) are not isolated but are connected to each other in meaningful ways. That all ideas in a text must have unity by combining them together to emphasize one central idea. Texts, like books, offer lengthy discussions or present procedures or steps, and instructional writings. Despite being extensive and tedious, the writings remain coherent. These long and comprehensive discussions as well as instructional writings are referred to as discourse. Thus, a text is connected discourse.