L1

• Text

  Generally considered as written material, especially longer pieces of writing as in a book, a letter or a newspaper
• Text


  A group of ideas put together to make a point or one central idea
• Discourse


  Formal and often lengthy discussion of a topic where concepts and insights are arranged in an organized and logical manner
• Discourse


  Conveys meanings, propels actions, and provokes a specific response
• Purposes of discourse

  • To inform
  • To persuade
  • To entertain
• Factors that affect our discourse or comprehension

  • Text
  • Discourse
• Text


  Made up of sentences having the property of grammatical cohesion
• Discourse


  Made up of utterances having the property of coherence
• Text as Connected Discourse


  A connected discourse where all ideas in the text must be related to express only the main idea or have unity by combining all ideas to emphasize the central idea
• Text as Connected Discourse

  Read and find the main idea in each passage to describe a text as a discourse