Linear and Non-Linear Texts

let's learn english through educating with teacher aya let's talk about linear and non-linear texts this lesson focuses on understanding the differences between linear and non-linear text the main difference between the two lies in the way the text is read or processed by an individual experts call this pattern of reading a material as reading path [Music] a linear text refers to traditional text that needs to be read from beginning to end in order to make sense of its content it follows a sequential reading path where the reader tries to make sense of the text through grammatical arrangements and relationship of words common examples of this type include novels poems short stories letters and educational texts this is an example of an educational text which you need to read from beginning to end in order to make sense of its content a non-linear text on the other hand is non-sequential this means that the readers not the author decide how the text is to be read without necessarily following a prescribed pattern the most common examples of non-linear text include flow charts charts graphs and other graphic organizers a line graph is a graphical display of data that continuously change over a specific amount of period or time the line or lines represent movement and may ascend or descend depending on the trend they show also known as a bar chart or bar diagram a bar graph is a graphical representation of data that uses bars to compare data according to given categories such bars may run either vertically or horizontally a pie chart or a pie graph is a circular statistical tool it uses portions or slices to represent numerical proportions or percentages of a given hole a venn diagram uses overlapping shapes usually circles to show or represent the similarities and differences between two or more items or concepts now let's transcode linear to non-linear text to transcode a linear text to a non-linear text you may follow these steps step 1 read and understand the source text to get its main or central ideas now let's try to read the paragraph step 2 extract important details to be included in the visual presentation can take note that the paragraph talks about two different animals with similar traits hence we can start visualizing the flow of our non-linear text it must contain the similarities and differences of the two animals step 3 remember to use words or phrases only it is not necessary to write the information incomplete sentence step 4 to be organized classify information into categories like what we did we categorized the information based on sharks and whales similarities and differences step 5 make sure to use the appropriate non-linear text in presenting your information let us now review what we just discussed what non-linear text should we use in presenting the similarities and differences of certain items right we have to use the venn diagram so we can now arrange information using the venn diagram to properly and clearly present the sharks and whales similarities and differences i think you are now ready to do the activity [Music] classify the items as to linear or non-linear text number one line graph two newspaper number three report four table number five histogram six venn diagram seven story number eight graphic organizer nine speech and number 10 biograph congratulations you have just completed this lesson do not forget to hit like and subscribe to teacher aya edukaytun thank you

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Id: 3KRxOT5m0sY

Length: 7min 26sec (446 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 23 2021