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• Properties of a Well-Written Text

  The key elements that contribute to effective writing
• Whatever the intent or whoever the intended audience is, composing texts involves a sequenced process from the production of initial ideas to the realization of a finished product
• Effective writing is not a ready-made skill; it entails preparation on our part as writers being knowledgeable with the rudiments of writing as well as with the components that contribute to good writing
• Writing skills are an essential element of communication
• Producing a well-written text makes you capable of effectively expressing your views, opinions, and ideas to your readers
• Organization


  The logical and accurate arrangement of ideas in a text
• Coherence


  The connection of ideas to the central concept of the text
• Cohesion


  The relationship of ideas between sentences
• Unity


  The oneness of ideas all pertaining to the theme or the topic sentence
• Text organization


  • Clear statement of purpose, position, facts, examples, specific details, definitions, explanations, justifications, or opposing viewpoints
• Physical format


  • Headings and subheadings, bullet points, font emphasis
• Structure


  • Beginning: introduction, thesis statement
  • Middle: supporting details
  • End: conclusion, summary, the final message
• Signal words


  Cues in the ordering of events and concepts
• Chronological order


  • Arranged in the order in which they happened
• Spatial order


  • Arranged according to the geographical location such as left-to-right, up-to-down, etc.
• Emphatic order


  • Arranged to emphasize certain points depending on the writer's purpose
• Coherence without cohesion has a central concept or glue that holds all the different ideas together, but without apparent logic to the way these ideas are presented
• Cohesion without coherence has ideas that are logically sequenced in a way that is easy to follow for the reader, but no central concept links all these ideas together
• Unity is oneness of ideas all pertaining to the theme of the topic sentences
• Without unity, text will be confusing