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LEARNING COMPETENCY
Specific Objectives:
“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the
creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the
finest teacher of how to write.” – Annie Proulx
Text is derived from the Latin word texere, which means to weave, while
discourse comes from the Latin word discursus, which denotes conversation speech.
Text refers to a large unit of written language - a group of ideas put together to
make a point or one central idea . It has a structure which requires the ideas in the
discourse to be relevant to each other. It is an actually connected discourse.
Surface text refers to the set of expressions actually used making some
knowledge explicit.