This document discusses different text structures including comparison, contrast, analysis, definition, description, and examples. It provides examples of each structure and discusses key words and phrases used to indicate each structure. It also discusses how the predominant structure of a text can indicate its communicative function, such as narrative, descriptive, instructional, or argumentative. Four examples are given demonstrating different text structures and communicative functions.

1. Universidad Nacional Experimental “Francisco de Miranda” Licda. Evelin Peña Estructuras de los Textos ADI, 2010

3. Contraste

4. Análisis

5. Definición

6. Descripción

8. Verbos, o Expresiones Claves.

9. Sinónimos y Antónimos y otros.

10. Pronombres relativos ( Who, What, Which, etc.) Diabetes isa group of metabolic diseases characterized by high blood sugar (glucose) levels, that result from defects in insulin secretion, or action, or both.

11. Estructuras por Definición 2.) The common cold, also known as a viral upper respiratory tract infection, is a self-limited contagious illness that can be caused by a number of different types of viruses. More than 200 different types of viruses are known to cause the common cold.

13. Se establece de los General a lo Especifico o viceversa. (Deducción, Inducción).

14. Verbos claves que indiquen descripción ( Tohave, Tobecharacterized as, Tobecomposed of, etc.)

17. Los ejemplos son ilustrados en su mayoría por medio de signos de puntuación ( guiones, paréntesis, abreviaturas i.e, o e.g)

20. Los conectores de causa ( dueto, as the, a result of, since, because, etc)

23. Buscar expresiones claves de comparación ( similiarto, like, thesame, both, likewise)

24. Buscar expresiones claves de contraste ( in contrastto/ with, opposite, however, though, unlike, etc.)

27. Narrativos

28. Descriptivos

29. Instruccionales

31. Función Comunicativa de Textos

32. Narrativo 1) Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822– January 6, 1884) was an Augustinian priest and scientist, who gained posthumous fame as the figurehead of the new science of genetics for his study of the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants. Mendel showed that the inheritance of these traits follows particular laws, which were later named after him. The significance of Mendel's work was not recognized until the turn of the 20th century. The independent rediscovery of these laws formed the foundation of the modern science of genetics.

33. Descriptivo 2) Mendel stated that each individual has two factors for each trait, one from each parent. The two factors may or may not contain the same information. If the two factors are identical the individual is called homozygous for the trait. If the two factors have different information, the individual is called heterozygous. The alternative forms of a factor are called alleles. The genotype of an individual are made up of the many alleles it possesses. An individual's physical appearance or phenotype is determined by its alleles. An individual possesses two alleles for each trait; one allele is given by the female parent and the other by the male parent.

35. Do not drink alcoholic beverages or take drugs unauthorized by your surgery team 48 hours prior to surgery.

36. Do not smoke before or after your surgery. Smoking may cause anesthetic problems and increased carbon monoxide in the bloodstream.

37. Do not take aspirin or aspirin products for one week prior to or after surgery, unless otherwise instructed by your doctor. Talk to your doctor if you take Coumadin, Motrin, Ibuprofin, Vitamin E or other blood-thinners.

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