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  2. Cohesion (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Cohesion is the grammatical and lexical linking within a text or sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning. It is related to the broader concept of coherence. There are two main types of cohesion: grammatical cohesion: based on structural content

  3. GCSE - Wikipedia

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    The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is an academic qualification in a range of subjects taken in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, having been introduced in September 1986 and its first exams taken in 1988.

  4. Textuality - Wikipedia

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    However, the characteristics are also closely associated with the structure of the text (Structuralism). Peter Barry's discussion of textuality notes that "its essence is the belief that things cannot be understood in isolation – they have to be seen in the context of the larger structures they are part of". [ 1 ]

  5. Scheme of work - Wikipedia

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    It is also notable that the curriculum for GCSE is intended by the Department for Education to examine all learning from Key Stages 1 to 4. In particular, topics listed in Key Stage 3 explicitly form part of the curriculum for Key Stage 4 [6] and the GCSE (such that the foundations of earlier learning are reinforced whilst building upon them ...

  6. Rhetorical structure theory - Wikipedia

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    Rhetorical structure theory (RST) is a theory of text organization that describes relations that hold between parts of text.It was originally developed by William Mann, Sandra Thompson, Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen and others at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and defined in a 1988 paper.

  7. Document structuring - Wikipedia

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    Perhaps the ultimate document structuring challenge is to generate a good narrative—in other words, a text which starts by setting the scene and giving an introduction/overview; then describes a set of events in a clear fashion, so readers can easily see how the individual events are related and link together; and concludes with a summary/ending.

  8. Text linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Text linguistics is a branch of linguistics that deals with texts as communication systems.Its original aims lay in uncovering and describing text grammars.The application of text linguistics has, however, evolved from this approach to a point in which text is viewed in much broader terms that go beyond a mere extension of traditional grammar towards an entire text.

  9. Todorov's narrative theory of equilibrium - Wikipedia

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    The narrative theory of equilibrium derives from narratology. [2] This discipline examines story construction and its effect on human consciousness. [3] Narratology perceives stories as sense-making mechanisms, [4] which allow citizens to understand history, [4] morality, [4] and contemporary social structures. [4]