Types of Text Structures.pptx

EAPP

1. Types of Text Structures

2. Objectives At the end of this module, you are expected to: Enumerate various texts structures; 2. Extract information from different text structures; and 3. Employ a type of language/discipline in crafting an academic text.

3. What I Know

4. What’s New

5. Types of Writing Narrative - This is the basic structure that writers use in presenting ideas. This may inform through illustration and anecdotes, entertain readers through stories, predict what will happen next or explain how something works or happens. This can be any of the following: a. Objective - Presents an objective timeline or details for accuracy. b. Subjective - Presents an insightful point of view, depending on the writer’s feelings.

6. Argumentative 2. Argumentative - This goes beyond giving information, writers use this to let readers understand their side of an argument, with analysis and support to their claims, this should have valid reasoning and enough evidence.

7. Informational This basically just to develop ideas using techniques to present details and well-chosen sequences. This basically just to develop ideas using techniques to present details and well-chosen sequences.

8. Types of Structures 1. Definition – used in explaining unfamiliar terms either to explain or to convince. a. Standard Definition – Universally-accepted and rarely changes. For example: definition of essay. b. Regulatory Definition – Assigned meanings based on an organization, regulating body and changes on situations. For example: classification of typhoon signal as per PAG-ASA

9. c. Personal Definition – This depends on the interpretations of the writer and as experienced by the writer. For Example: what is a true friend? d. Invented Definition – Given meanings to word coined and as used by society. For example: the definition of “first blood” in Mobile Legends.

10. 2. Description - used by writers to describe something. These may be an object, a person, place, experience, emotion, situation, event, etc. 3. Classification – used by writers to organize ideas into categories. For example: kinds of On-line games.

11. 4. Comparison and Contrast – used to show how two ideas are alike and different. Writers present information by chunks and by following a sequence. For example: IOS and android are both system used in mobile cellular phones. IOS is a more closed system which does not allow customer or user customization while android system is more open as it allows users or customers to download a wider variety of applications.

12. 5. Cause and Effect – used to explain why things happen, and the results of a certain phenomenon. Writers enumerate factors and possible outcomes resulting to phenomena or events.

13. 6. Chronological – used to show order of things, how something happens and the logical arrangement of things. This structure lends itself in other text structures in a sense that in narrating writers need to present a timeline of events; in persuading people, writers enumerate evidence in a sequence.

14. 7. Problem and Solution – used in showing patterns of organization where a dilemma is explained either through a solution or a dilemma is explained and a solution/s is/are given.

15. Homework