REVIEWER IN READING AND WRITING To Specify Time- after a few days, after a while,

SKILLS (STEM-11) afterward, as long as, as soon as, at the time, before,
Prepared by: Ma’am Ronalene Manguerra-Caringal earlier, now, immediately, meantime, in the past,
since, so far, until then, when.

PROPERTIES OF WELL- WRITTEN TEXT Language use- refers to the communicative

meaning of language
Writing- is one of the methods that we can use to
Jargons – language used in a certain profession.
convey our ideas.
Tenor - is responsible for the tone of your writing
Well-written text-is well-structured discourse that
either formal or informal
is clearly linked with correct use of grammar and
lexis. Formal – write formally when it is related to
school or work.
Organization-is the logical arrangement of
thoughts and ideas in a written text. Informal – it is informal when writing to friends or
family members.
Organizational patterns
Mode - is responsible for the medium of
 sequence, communication. It can either spoken or written
 description,
 cause and effect, Figure of Speech - is a creative use of language to
 problem and solution, and generate an effect.
 compare and contrast. Simile- comparison of things with the use of words
SEQUENCE- is a type of organizational pattern such as "like", "as", "so", or "than"
which follows an order based on time
Metaphor- It is the comparison of things without
(chronological), procedure or spatial.
the use of words such as "like", "as",
CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER- a text is
organized according to a timeline or sequence of a Personification- It is giving human characteristics
text. to inanimate objects.

Procedural Order- a text is organized according Hyperbole- This is exaggerating the statements to
to a step-by-step procedure that describes a create a literary effect.
particular order.
Idiomatic expression is a group of words that has
DESCRIPTION- is a type of organizational deeper meaning.
patterns that provides details and examples about
the topic. Characteristics of an Effective language use.

Cause and Effect - type of organizational pattern  Use concise words,

illustrates causal relationships between events.  Use concrete words,
 Use familiar words,
Compare and contrast- is a type of organizational
pattern that explains the similarities and differences  Be precise and clear,
of two or more objects or ideas.  Use constructive language and
 Use formal or informal language.
Coherence - to the overall sense of unity in a
passage, including both the main point of sentences Mechanics - refers to the rules of the written
and the main point of each paragraph. language, such as capitalization, punctuation and
spelling.
Cohesive writing- refers to the connection of your
ideas both at the sentence level and at the paragraph Capitalization - is writing a word with its first
level. letter as a capital letter (uppercase letter) and the
To Specify Sequence- again, also, and then, remaining letters in lower case, in writing systems
finally, first, second, third, last, moreover, as a with a case distinction.
result, besides, furthermore, next, still, too.
Punctuation - the tool that allows us to organize Uniform Resource Locator (URL),- is a reference
our thoughts and make it easier to review and share to a web resource that specifies its location on a
our ideas. computer network and a mechanism for retrieving
it.
Intertext or intertextuality- is technically defined
as a process of text development that merges two Protocol- is the https:// part.
more processes such as imitation and creation in WWW- World Wide Web.
doing a text.
Hostname-. It is the company who provides the
Intertextuality was created by the French information. (after the www)
semiotician- Julia Kristeva in the 1960s. She
created the term from the Latin word, intertexto, Resource path- it refers to the exact location of a
which means “to intermingle while weaving.” page, post, file, structure of the website.
- (usually located at the ending of URL)
Intertextuality figures or examples that a
reader may be able to identify: Three (3) reasons why do we need Hypertext
 Quotation
 Pastiche/Adaptation
 Translation 1. In a hypertext system, the reader is free to
 Allusion navigate information by exploring the connections
 Parody provided.
 Remix 2. Text no longer flows in a straight line through a
book. Instead, it is broken down into many
Quotation-is the easiest intertext to identify smaller units (lexias, to borrow a term from
wherein a work repeats a word-for-word a part of literary criticism), each addressing a few issues.
another works.
3. It acts as a bridge between two basic,
Pastiche- is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, opposite, and complementing elements that may
music, or architecture that imitates the style or be called gender of knowledge representation free
character of the work of one or more other artists. and shortcut.

Translation is the conversion of text written in one

language into another language while retaining the Good Luck and God Bless
original’s intent, meaning, and tone.
Allusion- The writer or speaker explicitly or
implicitly pertains to an idea or passage found in
another text without the use of quotation.
Parody - simply means a humorous or mocking
imitation of a literary work sometimes sarcastic,
but often playful and even respectful in its playful
intention.
Hypertext- is a non-linear way to present
information and is usually accomplished using
“links”.
Ted Nelson- is the first person in using this term in
1963
Hyperlink- is a text or an icon that you can click
on to get to another website. The link, which is
usually in blue and is underlined, serves as a
reference point that connects a particular page to
other pages over the web.