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  2. Autodidacticism - Wikipedia

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    It is a story about a feral boy, an autodidact prodigy who masters nature through instruments and reason, discovers laws of nature by practical exploration and experiments, and gains summum bonum through a mystical mediation and communion with God.

  3. List of autodidacts - Wikipedia

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    Gustave Eiffel (15 December 1832 – 27 December 1923) was a French structural engineer from the École Centrale Paris, an architect, an entrepreneur and a specialist of metallic structures. Horace Trumbauer (1868–1938) was known for his mansions and institutional buildings of the American "Gilded Age". His only formal training was as an ...

  4. Talk:List of autodidacts - Wikipedia

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    2 Definition of autodidact. 4 comments. 3 Order. ... Put new text under old text. ... an attempt to structure and organize all list pages on Wikipedia.

  5. 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.

  6. Textuality - Wikipedia

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    There is not a set formula to describe a text’s textuality; it is not a simple procedure. This summary is true even though the interpretation that a reader develops from that text may decide the identity and the definitive meanings of that text. Textuality, as a literary theory, is that which constitutes a text in a particular way. The text ...

  7. Coherence (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Coherence in linguistics is what makes a text semantically meaningful. It is especially dealt with in text linguistics.Coherence is achieved through syntactic features such as the use of deictic, anaphoric and cataphoric elements or a logical tense structure, and semantic features such as presuppositions and implications connected to general world knowledge.

  8. Text types - Wikipedia

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    The common structure or basic plan of narrative text is known as the "story grammar". Although there are numerous variations of the story grammar, the typical elements are: Settings – when and where the story occurs.

  9. 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