Reading, Communication, and Writing Techniques
Reading
Reading is an interactive process between the reader and the author. Its main feature is the reader’s prior knowledge. Strategies used in reading include attention, comprehension, observation, and analysis. Reading allows us to discover new symbols or identify symbols to join with those already known.
Types of Reading
- Evasion: Develops imagination, desires, and illusions.
- Literary: Analyzes the semantic sense, beauty, and style.
- Informative: Provides news and initial data for further study.
- Cognitive: Involves a deep desire to know more. It is disciplined and develops scholarly knowledge.
Semantics
Semantics involves analyzing everything with regard to the word.
Editorial
An editorial is an action expressed through the written word, concerning things that have happened, whether agreeable or difficult. Its principal features are that it must be unique, clear, unambiguous, without unnecessary words, and an original piece, not a copy of others.
Communication
Communication is the set of ways and means through which people interrelate with others and the things around them.
Characteristics of Communication
- Involves the emission and reception of messages.
- It is a social phenomenon.
- Usually produces answers through dialogue.
Channels of Communication
The channel is the medium through which the message is transmitted. It may be auditory, oral, telephonic, or through television.
Types of Communication
Oral, written, visual, auditory, mime, and corporal.
Circuit of Communication
Language makes it possible to transmit a message between two subjects: the speaker (transmitter) and the receiver.
Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension is where the meaning of the text being read is interpreted and extracted.
Writing
Writing must be legal and socialized, at the level of cultivated language, allowing for reflection and conceptual grammar. Syntax interruptions are not possible. Writing employs an ordered, coherent, and logical structure.
Narration
Narration is a textual structure that presents a story, an event, or a series of events at large.
Narrative Briefing
Narrative briefing is a way of transmitting or making known events or developments using denotative and everyday language.
Expressive Narration
Expressive narration uses language connotations; that is, everything associated with the meaning of a term.
Tabulation
Tabulation involves examining the relationships of each element with all others in a series to find similarities and differences.
Table
A table is a chart that presents a summary of the contents of a topic. It should be logical, ordered, and hierarchical. It can be presented vertically or horizontally and contains no definitions, only concepts.
Description
Description is to paint with words objects, beings, or landscapes, listing various details, qualifications, or circumstances.
Types of Description
- Portrait: Describes both the physical and moral qualities of a person or animal.
- Prosopography: Describes the physical attributes of a person or animal.
- Ethopoeia: Describes the moral character, inclinations, and morals of a person.
- Topography: Describes sites, places, and landscapes.
- Character: Describes types within a social class.
- Parallel: Describes and compares two individuals.
- Timeline: Describes events using dates and epochs.
Written Composition
Written composition is a process of continuous improvement and construction of written expression.
Paraphrase
Paraphrasing is a communicative action that involves making judgments or exposing your own critical views after understanding a text.
Synonyms of Paraphrase
Explanation, critique, clarification.
In a Nutshell
This type of text rescues the content from other ideas, but using our own words and adding personal opinions.
Summary
A summary is a text built from another, respecting the author’s ideas.
Paronymy
Paronymy is when words have a similar form and phonetics but their meanings are different. For example, apt-act, relieve-disclose, quiet-staff.
Punctuation
Punctuation is part of spelling on which the expression and understanding of speech and texts largely depend. It organizes different elements and permits the avoidance of ambiguity, since without its use, different interpretations might arise.
Catalog Record
A catalog record is a resource tool for locating books and documents. They are always organized alphabetically by author in libraries.