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Critical Reading and Claim in A Written Text

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Reading and Writing Skills

1
Contexts of Written Text

Contexts of Written Text

At the end of the module, the student is expected to:


1. Identify the context in which a text was developed
a. Hypertext
b. Intertext

What is Context?
Context, according to Moxley, refers to the occasion, or situation that informs
the reader about why a document was written and how it was written. The
structure, organization and purpose of a written text is heavily influenced by
its context.
Context is important as a foundation for the author in constructing his/her
written text. This includes how the writer has researched the topic and how
he/she organized the content.
Moxley posed the following questions on the analysis of context:
1. What is going on in the world of readers that will influence the reader’s
thoughts and feelings about the document?
2. Does the intellectual content of the document rest on the shoulders of
other authors? Will readers expect the author to mention particular
scholars or researchers who did the original, ground-breaking work on
the subject you are exploring?
3. What background information can you assume your reader is already
familiar with?
There are two types of context in which a text was developed: the hypertext
and the intertext.

Intertext
Intertextuality, as defined by Tiongson (2016), is the modeling of a text’s
meaning by another text. Intertext is the relationship between texts and how
culture and other writers influence a text. This is often seen on works
wherein the author borrows and transforms an existing text or when one
references a text on his own written work. The text will then contain a wide
accumulation of cultural, historical and social knowledge.
Intertext excludes irrelevant data. It underscores the main point/s of the text
by making explicit those data that are only implied or presupposed in the
text, thus defining their relevance. Spurred by this context, a healthy dialogue
among different texts and interpretations, audience, is born.

Course Module
Hypertext
Hypertext in reading, according to the Merriam Website Dictionary, “is text
displayed on a computer display or other electronic devices with references
(hyperlinks) to other text which the reader can immediately access or where
text can be revealed progressively at multiple levels of detail.”
Hypertext is a new way of reading a text online. It collects every available
data but this exhaustive inclusion exposes the reader to a wealth of
irrelevant material. While intertextuality banks on its text-generated
constraints on the reader’s perceptions, hypertextuality is a reader-
generated loose web of free association.
Information directly/indirectly related to the topic written may be
referenced through hyperlinks in which the reader can access the direct
source or reference through a single click.
Hypertextuality, although opens up to a wide variety of mostly irrelevant
information, gives the reader the free will to personalize his or her analysis
of the text. The reader may choose to focus only on the information that is
related to his/her background, thus creating a personal meaning out of the
given material.

References
Include list of books, journals and other online references that you used in
writing the module. Titles of sources should be written out in full. Use the
Reference Style for all reference items you will include.
Example :
Kerlinger, F.N. (1973). Foundations of behavioural research, 2nd Ed. New
York: Holt, Rinehard and Winston, Inc.
Kerlinger, F.N. (1973). Foundations of behavioural research, 2nd Ed. New
York: Holt, Rinehard and Winston, In

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