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    The document discusses different text types and their purposes. It describes five main text types: narrative texts which tell a story, descriptive texts which describe entities or events, instructional texts which provide instructions, argumentative texts which present arguments for or against a position, and expository texts which explain topics. Each text type has certain characteristics in terms of structure, tense, language features, and sequencing that help achieve their intended purpose.

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    The document discusses different text types and their purposes. It describes five main text types: narrative texts which tell a story, descriptive texts which describe entities or events, instructional texts which provide instructions, argumentative texts which present arguments for or against a position, and expository texts which explain topics. Each text type has certain characteristics in terms of structure, tense, language features, and sequencing that help achieve their intended purpose.

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    The key takeaways are that different types of texts serve different purposes and have evolved standard structures depending on their purpose, such as narratives, descriptions, instructions, and arguments.

    The different types of texts discussed are narratives, descriptions, instructions, and argumentative texts.

    Characteristics of a narrative text include detailing events in chronological order using actions, dialogue, and descriptions set in a past tense.

    TEXT TYPES AND

    PURPOSES OF
    WRITING

    Text Types

    2. Text and Text Types

    Different texts serve different


    purposes:

    To tell a story
    To describe an entity or event
    To provide instructions on how to
    operate a device
    To convince someone of something
    To explain how something works, etc.

    Text Types

    2. Text and Text Types

    Our society has evolved standard


    ways of writing a text for a given
    purpose such as:

    To tell a story Narrative


    To describe
    Descriptive Text
    Provide instructions
    Instructional Text
    To convince
    Argumentative
    Structure
    To explain
    Exposition

    2.1 Narrative Texts

    2. Text and Text Types

    Labovs schema:

    Orientation (time and setting of the


    story)
    Complication of story, a quest, an
    obstacle or a series of obstacles,
    Resolution to the complication.
    (optional) a Coda, which signals the
    story is ended.

    2.1 Narrative Texts

    2. Text and Text Types

    Sleeping Beauty
    Once upon a time in a place far far
    Orientation away, there lived a beautiful princess.
    A wicked witch, jealous of her beauty,
    gave the princess a poisoned apple.
    Complicati
    The princess took a bite from the
    on
    apple and fell into a deep sleep from
    which no-one could wake her.
    Years later, a handsome prince saw
    the sleeping princess, and kissed her.
    Resolution
    The princess awoke, and they
    married
    and lived happily ever after.
    Coda
    Title

    2.1 Narrative Texts

    2. Text and Text Types

    Real narratives go through cycles of


    this narrative structure:
    What happened first.
    What happened next, etc.

    2.1 Narrative Texts

    2. Text and Text Types

    Characteristics of a Narrative
    Detail what happened and in which order
    Contain mainly actions: She bit the apple.
    some verbal: The bad witch said
    some relational in the Orientation: She
    was very lonely.
    Mainly in simple past tense.
    Some past perfect to skip back to the
    past:
    She had lost her way

    2.2 Descriptive Texts

    2. Text and Text Types

    Descriptive texts:
    Information describing a scene, person
    or object
    Revered in times past as a sign of
    good fortune, this scarab is beautiful.
    An inch long and inch wide, this
    beetle features a deep cobalt blue
    body, blue and white Austrian Crystal
    wings, and golden accents. It would
    look fabulous on your favorite jacket.

    2.2 Descriptive Texts

    2. Text and Text Types

    Characteristics of a Descriptive Text

    Use of relational processes: It is big, it has


    2 sides
    Use of adjectives: He has very large eyes.
    Other noun modification (e.g. relative
    clauses)
    General structure is a LIST of attributes or
    facts
    Mostly simple present tense (universal
    truths)

    2.3 Instructional Texts

    2. Text and Text Types

    Information about how to achieve a goal


    Give the steps to follow

    How to get onto Moodle:


    1. Click on www.uam-virtual.es
    2. Click on: "Facultad de Filosogfia y Letras" (3rd in list)
    3. In "Search Courses" box, type: lengua
    4. Click "Go"
    5. Click on: "Lengua Inglesa (EEII, LMCC)"
    6. Click on the button where it says: Create New
    Account under Is this your first time here?
    7. Put in a username, your own password and fill out the
    rest of the form. You should enter your official UAM
    student email address, but apparently others will
    work too.

    2.3 Instructional Texts

    2. Text and Text Types

    Characteristics of an Instructional Text:


    Sequences of actions: To clean the
    device: (1) (2) (3)

    Use of imperatives: Open the lid.


    Conditional Adjuncts: When the
    machine has stopped
    Purpose Adjuncts: To open the case

    2.4 Argumentative Texts

    2. Text and Text Types

    Present arguments for or against a case

    Told by the campfire or as the plot of


    bestsellers, ghost stories have long been a
    popular
    form
    of
    entertainment.
    But,
    entertaining as ghost stories are, do ghosts
    themselves really exist? According to a 2001
    Gallop poll, 38 percent of Americans would say
    yes. They believe that the spirits of dead
    people do indeed walk among the living here
    on Earth. Others, however, argue that no solid
    proof of ghosts' existence has ever been
    found. They support their argument by
    pointing out that ghosts seldom appear to
    those who do not already believe in their
    existence.

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