ELS 110 REVIEWER Determining language/ style and tone of NLT

NON LITERARY TEXT Style -refers to the individual traits or

characteristics of a piece of writing.
- Characteristics
- Importance -particular way of writing words that readers
recognize.
NON LITERARY TEXT- Can be…/ more concerned with
information, facts. Tone is the expression of the author's attitude.
Ex: amusement, anger, affection, sorrow, or
-Has a referential or informative function a specific
contempt.
purpose and make use of denotative language.
UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS
Ex: Editorial, advertising, art, photography, brochure,
online articles etc. Language is arbitrary in the sense that there is no
inherent relation between the words of a
language.
TYPES OF NON LITERARY TEXT
Language is Social in this sense is a possession of
EXPOSITORY- Explain or inform a social group, comprising an indispensable set of
rules which permits its members to relate to each
Example: Report: Documentary, reference book
Other.
Recount: Journal, Diary, News Article
Language is Symbolic -Language consists of
TECHNICAL (Instruct or Explain) various sound symbols and their graphological
Examples: Instructions, recipes, directions counterparts that are employed to denote some
objects, occurrences or meaning. These symbols
PERSUASIVE ( Convince or call to action) are arbitrarily chosen and conventionally
Examples: Ads, opinion, response accepted and employed.

CHARACTERISTIC OF NON- Language is Systematic- language is a system of

LITERARY TEXT systems. All languages have phonological and
grammatical systems, and within a system there
They have a referential or are several sub-systems.
informative function. Its content is Language is Vocal- Language is primarily made
not fictional.
up of vocal sounds only produced by a
physiological articulatory mechanism in the
They depend on a context.
human body.
■ They are written seeking
objectivity. Language is Non-instinctive, Conventional- Every
They have a language then is a convention in a community. It
specific is non-instinctive because it is acquired by human
audience. beings.
■ They have a Language is Productive and Creative-Language
particular purpose. has creativity and productivity. The structural
• The message takes precedence over any poetic elements of human language can be combined to
sense. produce new utterances, which neither the
■ The language used is denotative, which makes speaker nor his hearers may ever have made
them unambiguous. Style- refers to elements such as active versus

passive writing, varied sentence lengths, flow,

Literary texts are texts that are narrative, or tell a
story, and contain elements of fiction. variety of word use, and punctuation choices
examples of literary texts include novels, short
stories, and poetry.
Tone- may be objective or subjective, logical or 3. Getting the main idea of the text- The main
emotional, intimate or distant, serious or idea of a text sums up the overall idea or
humorous. It can consist mostly of long, intricate theme, or what information the text is trying
sentences, of short, simple ones, or of something to convey.
in between. 4. Steps to find the Main Idea

Format- elucidates the unique aspect of a

Use basic text features: One of the central
person’s writing habits or a way of opting a
ideas of a text will be conveyed in the
specific style for imparting information content.
HEADING of the passage. Other
Chicago Style or CMS- Chicago University Press in central ideas will be conveyed in the
1906. SUBHEADINGS.

two formats: Determine the Text Structure: Transition

Notes-Bibliography and Author-Date. words show you the text structure; text
structure helps indicate the writer’s purpose.
MLA Style- It was formulated by the Modern
Language Association (MLA) and is popularly GRAMMAR AND STYLE
referred to amongst the students of languages
and literature. ·Stylistic analysis of a text -allows us to
Ex: Times New Roman with font size as 12. examine the workings of the text.

APA Style- It consists of an in-text parenthetical Normal: Ordinary, everyday conversational

citation which mentions the last name of the use of language
author and the publication date, along with the Deviant: the ways in which literary language
page number if necessary. The text is followed by can be said to differ
a page of references containing the full from more everyday, non-literary language
bibliographical information. Marked: a sentence that in some way
deviates from a grammatical
Turabian- this writing format commonly
Norm.
considered under the Chicago format due to its
similarities and is popularly used by students
CLASSIFICATION OF NON LITERARY TEXT
working on research papers, dissertations, and
theses.
Administrative text- They are mainly
Harvard Style- Under this writing format, an characterized by the formalism they
author-date structure is used for in-text citations implement and the non-response of a
along with a reference list. receiver, similar to a communiqué sent to a
person or a group of people.
CONTENT OF NLT

1. Information from the Text Argumentative text- These are texts in which
the purpose is to support a thesis or idea that
An expository text -is intended to identify and is presented from a detailed scheme of
characterize experiences, facts, situations, and justifications or reasons organized in a logical
actions in either abstract or real elements. and coherent way.
-explain, inform or describe.
Scientific text- It consists of texts that include
A persuasive text is a form of non-fiction writing information directly related to theories,
that aims to convince the reader of a certain concepts or topics based on scientific
point of view. knowledge.
Ex: reviews; brochures; campaign flyers.
Descriptive text- are defined as all those that
Technical- This type of text begins with a defined have ideas organized in a coherent way and
objective or goal, which will often form the title. their totality responds to an integral sense.
2.
Expository text- or informational texts, are Journalistic text- intention of these texts is to
non-fiction texts that give facts and update the public to whom they are
information about a topic. These academic addressed.
texts are common in subjects such as science,
history and social sciences.

Historical text
These are texts that bring together
documents and information subsequent to an
interpretation about a topic of the past in the
history of mankind.

Instructional text- is a text that presents the

reader with instructions on how to assemble
an article, perform an experiment, build an
artifact, organize a game or any other type of
process that involves following
specific instructions to achieve it.

Informative text- to offer a type of

information to the reader.

Normative text- text is a type of document

that includes rules or instructions for the
execution of a specific process.

Legal text- It gathers all those texts of a legal

nature. In other words, they are all those
documents used in the legal framework.

The technical text comprises all those texts

that are based on a precise discourse and
that include determined processes or
methodologies for the performance of an
activity.

Advertising text- It is a type of text that has

the purpose of leading the reader to perform
a specific action.

Academic text- result of research and

intellectual processes that are
developed in an academic field, as its name
implies.

Humanistic Text- refers to all those texts that

are developed on the field of humanities,
which implies the human being and its
culture.

Didactic text- the teaching of a specific topic,

process or aspect.