Text as a Connected Discourse

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  • Discourse is an utterance, talk, speech, or discussion. It is an extended expression of thoughts or ideas.
  • Text is a large unit of written language. This is where a group ideas are put together to make a point or central idea.
  • Properties of a well-written text
    • Organization
    • Coherence and Cohesion
    • Appropriate Language Use
    • Proper Mechanics
  • Organization
    Refers to the arrangement of ideas in a text.
  • Coherence and Cohesion
    Refer to the connection of ideas and sentences between paragraphs.
  • Appropriate Language Use
    Refers to the acceptable style of language for a particular form of text.
  • Proper Mechanics
    Refers to various writing conventions.
  • Morphology
    The study of words. It focuses on how they are formed and their relationship to other words in the same language.
  • Free Morpheme
    Can function independently as a word.
  • Bound Morpheme
    Cannot function independently as word.
  • Inflectional
    Modify the grammatical class of words.
  • Derivational
    Modify either the part of speech or the actual meaning of the word.