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The document discusses the importance of understanding the context in which a text is developed. It defines context as the social, cultural, political, and historical circumstances surrounding a text that help provide meaning. Understanding context allows the reader to appreciate the text's message more deeply. Some techniques for analyzing context discussed are intertextuality, which looks at connections between texts, and hypertextuality, which refers to nonlinear online reading. The document stresses that reading context is crucial for critical reading.

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RWS Context of Text Development-Intertext Hypertext

The document discusses the importance of understanding the context in which a text is developed. It defines context as the social, cultural, political, and historical circumstances surrounding a text that help provide meaning. Understanding context allows the reader to appreciate the text's message more deeply. Some techniques for analyzing context discussed are intertextuality, which looks at connections between texts, and hypertextuality, which refers to nonlinear online reading. The document stresses that reading context is crucial for critical reading.

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Context of Text

Development
Context of Text Development

“Being a critical reader involves understanding


that texts are always developed with a certain
context” .
Tiongson & Rodriguez, 2016
historical
Social

CONTEXT
Context
 Is defined as the social, cultural, political, historical, and
other related circumstances that surround the text and
 Form that terms from which it can be better understood and
evaluated
 Knowledge of the text’s context helps in appreciating the
text’s message more deeply.
Questions you may ask to discover the reading context:
 When was the work written?
 What were the circumstances that produced it?
 What issues does it deal with?
Techniques in analyzing the context
Intertextuality (intertext)
Example
JK Rowling’s "Harry Potter Series" and
JRR Tolkien’s "Lord of the Rings Trilogy."
 Both texts use wise wizards as the
protagonist’s mentor (Gandalf in LOTR
and Dumbledore in Harry Potter), this
is an example of intertextuality.
Intertextuality (intertext)

 Is a connections between language, image, characters, themes, or


subjects depending on their similarities
 Is borrowing and transforming a prior text, or when you read one text
and you reference another
 Is influenced by previous texts and in turn anticipates future texts.
 Contains many layers of cultural, historical, and social knowledge
 Dialogue among different texts and interpretations of the writer,
audience and the current and earlier cultural contexts.
Hypertext (Hypertextuality)
Reading as linear and non linear
Hypertext
 Is a new way of reading a text online
 Connects topics on a screen to related information,
graphics, videos, and music– information is not simply
related to text
 Appears as links and usually accessed by clicking
 Gateway to a wider horizon of information
Example
How to read?
 Skim/scan through sections of a text
 Freely jumping from one parts to another depending on what aspect
of text interests him/her
 Select the order in which you read the text and focus on information
that is relevant to your background and interest
 Create your own meaning
CAUTION: Avoid disorientation
Credible sources on the Internet
How to determine if an internet source is credible
Who Who is the author?
• If there is an about page, read it
• Is this person or organization an expert?
What What kind of information is provided?
• If the site provides only general facts, you should find better.
Where Where is this site on the web?
.com- hosted by a company, often a site for profit (be careful on the biased)
.org- hosted by a non-profit organization, information depending on the background
.edu- hosted by educational institution, typically reliable and expert information
.gov- hosted by government institution, typically reliable and expert information

When When was it published?


Why What is the goal in publishing? It must provide information not sell a product.
#endofthissession

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