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writing texts that are either a response or an initiation of a response. As implied, these are 'transactional texts'. See agenda, brochure, Curriculum Vitae, dialogue, diary entry, directions, email, fax, flyer, interview, invitation, letter, memorandum, minutes of a meeting, note, notice, obituary, play, postcard, poster and review.
a style of writing and speaking that is dramatises events, e.g. Horses drowned, houses washed...
a simple, interesting or funny story often used to illustrate a point.
a paragraph in which the topic sentence is somewhere in the middle of the paragraph.
the placing (or positioning) of words in relation to one another.
a syllable that ends in a vowel (e.g. ba-by, e-ven and pa-per). With open syllables, there are...