COMPARISON PAPER

Comparison of Transcript and Written Text

Comparison of Transcript and Written Text

From the written text above write a description of the genre in terms of the vocabulary used in your extract; any grammatical features you can identify; and any other conventions associated with this written language. You should also clearly describe the purpose and function of texts within this genre.

The written text based on the style of a normal day to day conversation of the individuals in the Western countries. This includes the use of normal expressions, as well as, the use of explanatory language. The written text in this case is an informative writing (BBC, 2012). This format characterized by a denotative use of language, which supports a distinct meaning, avoiding emotional expression, emotional and aesthetic. It centered on providing information on an issue or past event, or one that is going to happen. Objectivity is a basic narrative stance, maintaining disclosure primary intention of the text. Also in all the events, characters, places and time must be real. One should always be present coherence and cohesion, i.e. the text is with logic and consistency with raised, remembering the correct relationship between the words. The thoughts presented clearly, avoiding possible ambiguities (BBC, 2012). There is a thematic progression, by which they organize and develop ideas. Examples of informational text may be the news, the formal letter, the memorandum and the report.

The so-called informative text (sometimes also called expository text) distinguished from other forms of writing because, as its name suggests aims to "inform" the reader, that is, to enrich their knowledge about a subject by providing in a clear and ordered their " information "(data, information, explanations). From the point of view of content, its structure is, therefore, essentially consists of a succession of sentences, periods or paragraphs "informative", corresponding to the different aspects of that topic in a logical and orderly. Inside you can also distinguish the information "leading" from the "secondary", these are not essential but which nonetheless serve to clarify or expand the salient information. Following are the features on an informative text:

Because of its nature such information is crucial that uses text, from the point of view of language, a terminology correct, appropriate and unambiguous.

Besides the need, for popular communication cannot be separated from exposure always clear and understandable, facilitated by the use of periods of time or a provision of tricky organic and functional parts.

For this reason, in writing an informative text recommended the adoption of the journalistic style, in particular the so-called ABC (Accuracy, Brevity, Clarity) and the rule of 5 W (who = who, what = what, When = when, where = where and why = why).

Another essential feature of the text information is its objectivity, understood as the ability to present data, information and explanations in their actual situation without interventions or changes, albeit unintentional, by the writer.

It is an informative text that informs the readers about the happening of a certain event, related to a particular ...