Text types
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Textual types refer to the following four basic aspects of writing:
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[edit] The descriptive text type
Based on perception in space. Impressionistic descriptions of landscapes or persons are often to be found in narratives such as novels or short stories. Example: About fifteen miles below Monterey, on the wild coast, the Torres family had their farm, a few sloping acres above the cliff that dropped to the brown reefs and to the hisssing white waters of the ocean ...
[edit] The narrative text type
Based on perception in time. Narration is the telling of a story; the succession of events is given in chronological order.
[edit] The expository text type
It aims at explanation, i.e. the cognitive analysis and subsequent syntheses of complex facts. Example: An essay on "Rhetoric: What is it and why do we study it?"
[edit] The argumentative text type
Based on the evaluation and the subsequent subjective judgement in answer to a problem. It refers to the reasons advanced for or against a matter.
Examples: argumentative texts
- comments, interviews, speeches, reviews
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