2nd Semester SLK WEEK 1

Text as a Connected Discourse

Text as a Connected Discourse
Properties
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READING AND WRITING

GRADE 11
Colegio De San Jose
 Why is understanding of the nature of texts
considered an essential part of effective reading
and writing?
 GUIDELINES
 Unity and Logical arrangements of ideas
 The appropriateness of your language use
 The correctness of your capitalization
 Grammar
 Punctuations
 spelling
 Properties of a Well-written Text

1. Organization
2. Coherence and Cohesion
 VOICE TONE WORDS

Academic/Professional • Objective • Few personal pronouns

(Formal) • Authoritative • Without contractions
• Courteous • Technical terms
• Nominalizations (i.e., use of
nouns from verbs, e.g.,
analysis from analyze,
conclusion from conclude)

• First person pronouns

• With contractions
Personal • Subjective • Familiar expressions (e.g.,
(Informal) • Conversational (e.g., well, of course)