Text as a Connected Discourse

• 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.