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Determining The Effect of Textual Aids On The Understanding of A Text

Textual aids such as titles, subtitles, illustrations, tables, graphs, and maps can help readers better understand a text in two main ways. First, they direct readers' attention to important ideas. Second, they provide supplemental information to what is written. Different types of textual aids serve different functions - titles and subtitles activate prior knowledge and represent key concepts, illustrations facilitate better information retention, tables organize data in a readable format, graphs demonstrate relationships in data, and maps visually depict physical or political characteristics.

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Determining The Effect of Textual Aids On The Understanding of A Text

Textual aids such as titles, subtitles, illustrations, tables, graphs, and maps can help readers better understand a text in two main ways. First, they direct readers' attention to important ideas. Second, they provide supplemental information to what is written. Different types of textual aids serve different functions - titles and subtitles activate prior knowledge and represent key concepts, illustrations facilitate better information retention, tables organize data in a readable format, graphs demonstrate relationships in data, and maps visually depict physical or political characteristics.

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Determining the Effect of Textual Aids on the Understanding of a Text

Textual Aids
- refer to non-textual elements that help readers understand the content of the text.
- refer to elements that stand-out from the main text such as titles and subtitles, bold, italicized and
underlined texts. Non-textual elements include illustrations, maps, tables, graphs and charts.
These aids have two main functions, namely: first, to direct the readers’ attention to important ideas
in the text and second, to provide more information as a supplement to what is already written.
Textual Aids
1. Titles and Subtitles
> Provide initial idea on what the text is all about
> Activate prior knowledge on the topic
> “Represent the key concepts (title) and supporting ideas
(subtitles) in the paper” (Elite Editing, 2015)
> Layering or positioning of these aids convey the ideas’ level of importance
2. Illustration
> Visual representation of a subject
> Facilitates better retention of the information presented
3. Tables
> Information (facts and figures) that are organized and arranged in columns and rows
> Used to show patterns and relationships that still appeals to the readers’ verbal system, meaning tables
are supposed to be read like a text
- Column headings - found on top of the columns; used to identify the contents of a specific
column
- Row headings – used to define or identify the contents of a specific row

4. Graphs
> Used “when a simple table cannot adequately demonstrate important relationships” of and within data
(Mind Tools
4 types:
A. bar graph – uses either vertical or horizontal bars to show the data it represents but
emphasized that these bars do not touch each other; height of the bar indicates the value it
represents: the longer the bar, the higher the value it represents, the shorter the bar, the lower the
value it represents
B. line graph – used to show how numerical data have changed over time and it is best used to
show trends
C. pie graphs – show “how a whole is divided into different parts”
D. pictograph - “similar to bar chart but use pictures to symbolize a countable unit of items”
5. Maps
> Visual representations of selected characteristics of a place, usually drawn on a flat surface
> 2 types
A. physical map - includes labels for features such as mountain ranges and bodies of water
B. political map - usually includes labels for features such as cities and major towns, units such
as states or provinces, and bodies of water.

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