Q1 TEST

A type of text that explains the nature of a particular topic or object.

• DEFINITION/ELUCIDATION

• SIGNAL WORDS

• DESCRIPTION

• RECOUNT OF A SEQUENCE

gives concrete details about appearance, characteristics, and action. This text usually uses words that signal description through adjectives.

• DESCRIPTION

• DEFINITION/ELUCIDATION

• SIGNAL WORDS

• RECOUNT OF A SEQUENCE

A chronological narration of  a historical period, a sequential description of  a process or a procedure

• SIGNAL WORDS

• RECOUNT OF A SEQUENCE

• DEFINITION/ELUCIDATION

• DESCRIPTION

Presents reasons why a situation is obtained. Though the effect comes before the result, in academic writing it is the effect that is usually given first to attain a more dramatic effect.

• ENUMERATION

• PROBLEM-SOLUTION

• CAUSE-EFFECT

• COMPARISON AND CONTRAST

text starts with a negative situation and ends with a positive situation.

• PROBLEM-SOLUTION

• CAUSE-EFFECT

• ENUMERATION

• COMPARISON AND CONTRAST

This text intends to show the similarities and differences of the presented ideas.

• ENUMERATION

• CAUSE-EFFECT

• COMPARISON AND CONTRAST

• PROBLEM-SOLUTION

This text is considered a listing of a topic's characteristics and examples.

• THESIS-EVIDENCE

• ENUMERATION

• COMPARISON AND CONTRAST

• CLASSIFICATION

This text presents groupings, types, classes, categories, and sub-categories that constitute a concept, presented in hierarchical order

• ENUMERATION

• COMPARISON AND CONTRAST

• THESIS-EVIDENCE

• CLASSIFICATION

Uses letters with special meaning to stand for the variables of the unknown.

• MATHEMATICAL TEXTS

• NATURAL SCIENCE TEXTS

• BUSINESS TEXTS

• SOCIAL SCIENCE TEXTS

Uses jargon and compound nouns as standard expressions

• NATURAL SCIENCE TEXTS

• MATHEMATICAL TEXTS

• SOCIAL SCIENCE TEXTS

• BUSINESS TEXTS