Text Composition and Film Barbie (2023) Quiz

What is text composition and what purpose could a text have?

• Text composition is the process of creating a new font; A text could have the purpose of making a phone call
• Text composition is the art of writing with different colors; A text could have the purpose of flying a plane
• Text composition is the study of ancient languages; A text could have the purpose of baking a cake
• Arrangement and organization of written or printed material; Informing, persuading, entertaining, or expressing emotions

Which 3 types of text do you know and what is their purpose?

• Fictional, scientific, and historical - to confuse the reader
• Short story, magazine article, manual: narrative, descriptive, and expository

• Poetic, technical, and persuasive - to entertain the reader
• Analytical, argumentative, and critical - to inform the reader

How can you make a written text appealing?(3 ways)

• By using appealing layout

• By including beautiful pictures

• By including a good mixture of fun facts and hard facts

• By writing down lots of unexplained data.

What are the most important parts of a text or video and why?

• The font and color scheme used because they are or aren't immediately appealing to the reader or viewer.

• The looks of the reader or presenter since aesthetics is everything.

• Introduction and conclusion, because the intro is an invitation or hook for the reader and the conclusion contains a summary of the main points and a final outcome.

• The length of the text or video because if a text is too long, a reader or viewer won't read-watch until the end and if its too short the message will be meaningless and superficial.

What is the difference between formal and informal register/writing? Which one should you adopt at school?

• Formal register is correct, clear and it uses formal expressions. At school we adopt a rather formal register.

• Colloquial expressions like "dad" are informal, father or parent is the formal equivalent. At school we should adopt formal language whenever we can, since it is a formal context.

• Swearwords or terms of endearment are informal elements, addressing someone with a title or surname is formal. At school we need to adopt a more formal register.

• Formality is when the form is correct, informality is when the form is wrong. At school we can adopt a formal or informal register.

Why do we need to structure a text as opposed to free writing, which is writing down your thoughts as they come or with minimal thought editing? (3 reasons)

• To give the text more clarity and cohesion, whereas free writing can be messy and hard to understand.

• To make the message of our writing comprehensible and pleasing to read. Free writing is unorganised and spontaneous, which is more for ourselves and not for a long-term use.

• Because it's more fun and instructive to read a text that is well organised, rather than a barely understandable one. Spontaneous writing can be functional, like a shopping list, but it isn't usually organised for a clear purpose, nor does it provide good accuracy and coherence.

Name 3 components and 3 purposes of a text introduction:

• Components: Greeting, Table of contents, Call to action. Purposes: Say hello, Provide a list of chapters, Encourage the reader to do something unrelated.
• Components: Title, Conclusion, Body. Purposes: Confuse the reader, Provide irrelevant information, Hide the main idea.
• Components: Joke, Personal anecdote, Random fact. Purposes: Entertain the reader, Share a personal story, Provide irrelevant information.
• Components: Hook, Background information, Thesis statement (=problem presentation). Purposes: Engage the reader, Provide context, Present the main idea.

Topic sentence of a body paragraph and its importance:

• A topic sentence is the first sentence of a paragraph. It is like the introduction of a text.

• The topic sentence of a text is about fun facts to attract the reader. It is about entertainment.

• A topic sentence starts a paragraph. It should explain what the main idea of it is and invite the reader to go on reading.

• The topic sentence stands at the beginning of each paragraph to invite the reader to read it and to say what it is about.

How many body paragraphs should a text composition ideally have? Why?

• 7 to 9 according to Miller's Law because that is how many points our short term memory can hold.

• 1 to 3 since we don't remember a lot of elements immediately after reading or watching a video.

• 5 to 10 as our memory can easily store that amount of information quickly.

• 3 to 5, is the optimal number for our brain to process and encode information. Chunks of 3-5 items are easier to remember because they are more manageable and less likely to overload our short-term memory.

Name the components of a conclusion: (ab.3)

• introduction, body, conclusion
• analysis, evidence, counterargument
• summary of main points, restating the thesis (main problem/issue), and final thoughts