Comparing Two Text Structures

Arthur Junot Diaz was born in the Dominican Republic and with his family immigrated to the United States when he was only seven years old. His Hispanic cultural background influences his story and characters Diaz’s characters use Latin dialect throughout the story “Fiesta 1980”. Likewise August Wilson grew up in a black neighborhood up north that influenced his characters, setting, and dialect in Fences. Both Diaz and Miller wrote from a cultural perspective. Each Arthur depicted how it was to live and grow up in their particular culture. Through the use of culture both Diaz and Wilson portray how important it

Writers such as Dwight Okita and Sandra Cisneros were greatly influenced by the American culture. "Response to Executive Order 9066" by Dwight Okita, and "Mericans" by Sandra Cisneros both authors establish the topic of American identity. In Okita's poem, American identity has more to do with how you experience culture than with where your family came from. Both Okita's poem and Cisneros's short story show that cultural heritage and physical appearances do not determine what it means to be American.

Charles Bazerman in his work Speech Acts, Genres, and Activity System: How Text Organize and People, explains that genre systems are, “text is embedded within structured social activities and depends on previous texts that influence the social activity and organization” (Bazerman

The different formats in which text may be presented are they are font typefaces, headings, font size, effects (bold, italics, underline, etc.), colours etc. We can format the text in paragraphs, tables and columns. We can add bullets or numbers, headers and footers.

You may know some information about text structure, but how can you compare and contrast the structures of a non-fiction excerpt and article. Well first you would need to find all the text structures that are being used in the text or writing piece. Few examples are statistics, main ideas and details, cause and effects,etc. In the article of ‘ ' Super Disasters of the 21st century ' ', by Jacqueline Adams and Ken Kostel and the excerpt of,‘ 'The Perfect Storm’’, by Sebastian Junger, the author’s use text structures to describe the cause and effect of the disasters, by using the source of the types of text structures. So our question now is, what are some of those text structures that can help us find the difference and similarities of both the excerpt and the article?

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Good morning Ms Linton and students, today I will be informing you on why you must choose these two poems for the poetry speaking contest. The poems I have chosen are ‘The Man from Ironbark’, by Banjo Patterson as well as ‘He Started the Cycling Craze’ by myself. Narratives help the readers enjoy and understand poetry as it is a way the poets can connect to their readers by using storylines that may relate to them or something that they enjoy.

The first article is a story done by National Public Radio, a non-profit media organization that is

It has been said that many siblings are very similar; However my sister and I are nothing alike we are actually very different. When two people have the same blood type and genotype is not insured that you will be exactly the same. Having same parents increases the chances of having the same genes though. All Siblings have various behaviors and personalities that make them dissimilar. Siblings have a genetic and physical closeness that connect them together. It is reasonable that not all sisters resemble each other. My sister and I are completely opposite.

The Oxford Dictionary of Sociology Defines structure as “A term referring to any recurring pattern of social behaviour or, more specifically, to the ordered interrelationships between different elements of a social system or society… It is sometimes used rather loosely to refer to any observable ‘pattern’ of social activities” More simply put, structure is the

If there was no structure in writing, would you be able to find the theme of that writing piece? Structure is used to solidify and give life to the theme of that writing. Structure backs up the theme and also makes writing more interesting. There are many ways that structure helps portray theme. Writers use diction, figurative language, syntax, imagery, and line structure to portray theme in a way that most people do not think about. Writers use these structure types to enhance their writing and influence you to think of certain themes. The way that these structures are used gives the theme of that writing piece life. The theme, pain can drive you to work harder than you ever have before, is illustrated through figurative language and imagery.

A Comparison of Two Newspaper Articles In this essay I will be comparing two articles taken from local

The question I want to focus on is whether the texts (feeding of four thousand and five thousand) are compatible on their own, then whether they are compatible with each other. By compatible on their own, I mean whether any of the Gospels contradict each other on said story. When I ask whether they are compatible with each other, I am asking whether both of the stories themselves contradict the other story.

In the video, text complexity was broken up into three parts. The parts were as follows; qualitative, quantitative, and reader and task. Qualitative as define by Zombro (2012) is calculated by the teachers, such as think quality, think human connotation. Quantitative is determined the aspect of the text, such as word length and frequency. In addition, it is evaluated by computer software. Reader and task is based upon the teacher’s judgment. Zombro

Functional structure and simple structure are the most common forms of structure. Small companies use them forms of structure.

The duplication detector is a tool used to compare any two web pages to identify text which has been copied from one to the other. It can compare two Wikipedia pages to one another, two versions of a Wikipedia page to one another, a Wikipedia page (current or old revision) to an external page, or two external pages to one another. Duplication detector locates passages in which the text on the two pages is the same. The number of words to match is variable, but set by default to