Importance of the Texts

We read dozens of texts a day: the news from the newspaper, a book we like, the subtitles of a movie we It's in English and we don't understand it unless we have the help of letters, a cooking recipe, a medicine leaflet, etc. All of these are texts, not just those that are inside a book, be it fictional or not. What is it then that basically characterizes a text?

First of all, that it is a set of word extensions that contains several sentences (sentences are characterized by the existence of punctuation marks, in this case, the point determines its end, and the use of capital letters after it, indicates the beginning of another sentence). Those sentences, to form a text, have to have a coherence with each other that allows us to understand what the text we are reading is about. Likewise, this text must also have cohesion, which is the proper use of vocabulary and grammar that allows it to be understood even better.

The text is defined as a written speech, which can even be turned into an oral discourse by using the

language, such as when we read a paragraph of the news out loud for another to listen to, when in school is commonly read a book or when someone recites a verse of a poem in an act school.

The text, contains symbols that are the letters, which can be understood and interpreted through a social convention that allows people from the same community to understand the text. the alphabet or alphabet is the pattern of writing possessed by all people who speak the same language, and allows texts to be understood.

The texts that have a significant extension, as is the case of a news item in a newspaper, they have one basic structure which includes at least: beginning or presentation of the general idea, idea development (examples, comparisons, background, references, etc. can be provided) and an end, which is the typical "end" of the text. This at a higher level, as in the case of fictional books, also has a similar structure, although of course, with different styles depending on what type of text we are talking about. The text may be understood both grammatically and in its sense as long as the author and reader share, among other things, the same linguistic skills (especially language) and interest in the issue.