Text Analysis

Text Analysis

1. Type of Text

   • Argumentative
     • 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
     • 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
     • 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.)
       • Tone
       • Context