These text have hypothesis or viewpoint author' s opinion wich is problematic and needs to proven or validated as true( False). These texts provide controversy on a topic, and are full with supporting argunents such as explanations, descriptions, quotes, facts, theories, evidences, estatistics, analogies, exmaples, anecdotes, etc.
Rhetorical Purposes. to
persuit, to convince. to
prove, to validate, to
discern, to postulate
Expositive
Annotations:
These text provide information without no other purpose than to inform the reader . They might have options but they are no intented to be proven or defended by the author
Rhetorical Purposes. To
describe, to explain, to
inform, to show,to report
Narrative
Annotations:
These texts are asociated with literary works suchs as a poetry, novels, short stories , etc.,and are not intended to be analyzed here in the course
to amuse, to console
and others
Topic
A topic is the
subject of the text
(or paragraph). It
is expressed by a
phrase ( a groups
of words), and
cannot be neither
too specific nor
too general
General Idea
The general idea of a text
is a globalizing idea about
the reading's main
contents. Is the type of
cosntruction S+V+C and is
NOT USUALLY in the
reading. For this reason,
the reader might build
according to the contents
of the texts
Main Idea
the main idea of a passage or reading is the central
thought or message. in contrast to the term topic,
wich refers to the subject under discussion, the term
main idea refers
Rhetorical Purpose of the text
The (rhetorical) purpose or the
text of (paragraph) is the
author intention's when
writting his/her text. This
intention should be expressed
with averb in the infinitive
form (to criticize,to explain, to
alert, to compare,etc.)