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Text As Connected Discourse

The document discusses how a written text becomes connected discourse through the use of cohesive devices, connectives, and conjunctions. A written text acquires the characteristics of connected discourse when its ideas are logically linked, organized into paragraphs with clear topic sentences, supporting details, and concluding sentences. Signal words and phrases should introduce each new point, and examples or statistics should support each point. Connectives like "firstly", "secondly", "furthermore", "moreover", "in addition", and "finally" can be used to list arguments, while connectives like "in conclusion", "in summary", and "thus" indicate final statements.

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Text As Connected Discourse

The document discusses how a written text becomes connected discourse through the use of cohesive devices, connectives, and conjunctions. A written text acquires the characteristics of connected discourse when its ideas are logically linked, organized into paragraphs with clear topic sentences, supporting details, and concluding sentences. Signal words and phrases should introduce each new point, and examples or statistics should support each point. Connectives like "firstly", "secondly", "furthermore", "moreover", "in addition", and "finally" can be used to list arguments, while connectives like "in conclusion", "in summary", and "thus" indicate final statements.

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TEXT AS CONNECTED

DISCOURSE
REVIEW
It is generally considered as written material, especially longer pieces of writing
as in a book, a letter or a newspaper.
• Text
_______ is generally regarded as spoken
• Discourse
The overall text has meaning.
• Coherence
The writer’s attitude and purpose can be discerned.
• Intentionality
The text can be linked to preceding discourse.
• Intertextuality
NOW TRY TO READ THE PARAGRAPH “
WHY I DON’T HAVE A CREDIT CARD”
a. Do your parents own a credit card? How about you, do you plan to own a
credit card when you graduate and get work? Why?

b. Compare the writer’s attitude towards credit cards with her friend Sara’s.

c. How are the paragraph’s ideas logically linked?


HOW CAN WE SIMPLY MAKE A
WRITTEN TEXT INTO CONNECTED
DISCOURSE?
- ohecvise vedcise
cohesive devices
- netconcives
connectives
- jounciconts
conjunctions
- rietipentos
repetitions
WRITTEN TEXT ACQUIRES THE
CHARACTERISTICS OF CONNECTED
DISCOURSE WHEN:
1.Its ideas are linked logically.
STEPS:
a. Begin a logical division paragraph with a topic sentence.
b. In the supporting sentences, discuss each point one after the other.
c. Introduce each new point with a signal word or phrase.
d. In addition, support each point with a convincing detail such as an
example or a statistic (number, amounts, percentages, etc.)
e. Finally, end a logical division paragraph with a concluding sentence
CONNECTIVES FOR LISTING
ARGUMENTS
• Firstly – this can be used for the first supporting argument

• Secondly, furthermore, moreover, in addition – these can be used for any


further supporting arguments( except, of course, for “ Secondly” which can
only be used for the second)

• Finally – this can be used for the last supporting argument.


NOTE: this is not a concluding connective and also you can use
“Furthermore”, “Moreover”, or “ In addition” for the last argument if you wish
CONCLUDING CONNECTIVES
• In conclusion, In summary, Thus

- These all carry roughly the same meaning.


- they should be used to indicate that you are making final statements that
cover all the supporting arguments in a very general way.
• In fact / Indeed
These two connectives have almost the same meaning and both can
be used in the following situations:
1. To connect a more detailed statement with a preceding general
statement.
Example:
Today is very warm. In fact(or Indeed) it is 35 degrees Celsius.
In fact / Indeed
2. To connect a statement which is more factual and exact with a
preceding statement that is more debatable and general

Example:
The internet is very popular in Australia. Indeed (or In fact) ,
Australia has the highest proportion of Internet users per head of
population of any country in the world.
2. There is logical organization and
development of the theme.

- Consider its central theme


A central theme is the key, the core, the significant message of a
reading selection.
To get the central theme, try imagining this scene.

- A close friend stops by to visit you for a few minutes on the


way to work. You invite him and ask him to sit down. He
glances briefly at the headlines on the front page of the
newspaper lying on the floor. Not having time to hear all the
details, he asks, “ What’s this about?”

- The summary you give – neither too long nor too short- is a statement of the
central theme, in this case of the news article.

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