Text Features

Text features help readers to organize their thoughts as they are reading the passage.

Some text features include:

• The title of a text: The title of a text alerts the reader about the contents of the text which can be a formal text or an informal text such as a memo, an announcement, a newspaper article, an email, an essay, a research study and an essay, for example.
• The headings of a text: Headings of both formal and informal texts are often used when the text is a longer and lengthier one than a simple paragraph or two and also in shorter texts to highlight and draw attention to some of the critical parts of an announcement or public notice, for example.
• The subheadings of a text: The subheadings of a text further narrow and define the content of the text headings.
• Fonts: The size and shapes of numbers and letters that are used in informal and formal texts.
• Traditional fonts: Fonts such as the Arial and times new Roman, with a 10 or 12 point size, are acceptable for the composition of formal texts.
• Aesthetics: The quality of a work in terms of its eye pleasing and eye catching beauty.
• Sidebars: Sidebars are pictures, graphics and/or texts that appear and are placed outside of the margins of the remainder of a text or within the text itself when they are walled off and distinctly differentiated from the rest of the text. These sidebars feature some important detail about the content of the text.
• In text citations: Those citations that occur and are placed in and within a text sporadically and intermittently to give credit to the person, other than the author, who has, or had, this thought or idea.
• End text notations or citations: These notations or citations are found at the end of the paper on a separate page sometimes referred to as a bibliography or reference page.
• The key or legend of a text: The key or legend of a text includes information about the symbols found in a text or another form of printed communication such as a map.
• The glossary of a text: The glossary of a text is an alphabetical listing of words, terms and abbreviations and their definitions which are found and used in the book. The glossary is typically found at the end of a book before the index.
• The table of contents: The table of contents has the headings, and often, subheadings, of the contents of the book. The index of a book is the last section of a book. An index contains words which are found in the book and the page or pages where the words or phrases can be found.
• The index: The text feature that allows the reader of the text to readily find information about the word that they are looking up.
• A search engine: A search engine is a computer software program that searches of information on the World Wide Web. It is similar to the index of the book.

Text features help readers to organize their thoughts as they are reading the passage.

Some text features include:

• The title of a text: The title of a text alerts the reader about the contents of the text which can be a formal text or an informal text such as a memo, an announcement, a newspaper article, an email, an essay, a research study and an essay, for example.
• The headings of a text: Headings of both formal and informal texts are often used when the text is a longer and lengthier one than a simple paragraph or two and also in shorter texts to highlight and draw attention to some of the critical parts of an announcement or public notice, for example.
• The subheadings of a text: The subheadings of a text further narrow and define the content of the text headings.
• Fonts: The size and shapes of numbers and letters that are used in informal and formal texts.
• Traditional fonts: Fonts such as the Arial and times new Roman, with a 10 or 12 point size, are acceptable for the composition of formal texts.
• Aesthetics: The quality of a work in terms of its eye pleasing and eye catching beauty.
• Sidebars: Sidebars are pictures, graphics and/or texts that appear and are placed outside of the margins of the remainder of a text or within the text itself when they are walled off and distinctly differentiated from the rest of the text. These sidebars feature some important detail about the content of the text.
• In text citations: Those citations that occur and are placed in and within a text sporadically and intermittently to give credit to the person, other than the author, who has, or had, this thought or idea.
• End text notations or citations: These notations or citations are found at the end of the paper on a separate page sometimes referred to as a bibliography or reference page.
• The key or legend of a text: The key or legend of a text includes information about the symbols found in a text or another form of printed communication such as a map.
• The glossary of a text: The glossary of a text is an alphabetical listing of words, terms and abbreviations and their definitions which are found and used in the book. The glossary is typically found at the end of a book before the index.
• The table of contents: The table of contents has the headings, and often, subheadings, of the contents of the book. The index of a book is the last section of a book. An index contains words which are found in the book and the page or pages where the words or phrases can be found.
• The index: The text feature that allows the reader of the text to readily find information about the word that they are looking up.
• A search engine: A search engine is a computer software program that searches of information on the World Wide Web. It is similar to the index of the book.

Text features help readers to organize their thoughts as they are reading the passage.

Some text features include:

• The title of a text: The title of a text alerts the reader about the contents of the text which can be a formal text or an informal text such as a memo, an announcement, a newspaper article, an email, an essay, a research study and an essay, for example.
• The headings of a text: Headings of both formal and informal texts are often used when the text is a longer and lengthier one than a simple paragraph or two and also in shorter texts to highlight and draw attention to some of the critical parts of an announcement or public notice, for example.
• The subheadings of a text: The subheadings of a text further narrow and define the content of the text headings.
• Fonts: The size and shapes of numbers and letters that are used in informal and formal texts.
• Traditional fonts: Fonts such as the Arial and times new Roman, with a 10 or 12 point size, are acceptable for the composition of formal texts.
• Aesthetics: The quality of a work in terms of its eye pleasing and eye catching beauty.
• Sidebars: Sidebars are pictures, graphics and/or texts that appear and are placed outside of the margins of the remainder of a text or within the text itself when they are walled off and distinctly differentiated from the rest of the text. These sidebars feature some important detail about the content of the text.
• In text citations: Those citations that occur and are placed in and within a text sporadically and intermittently to give credit to the person, other than the author, who has, or had, this thought or idea.
• End text notations or citations: These notations or citations are found at the end of the paper on a separate page sometimes referred to as a bibliography or reference page.
• The key or legend of a text: The key or legend of a text includes information about the symbols found in a text or another form of printed communication such as a map.
• The glossary of a text: The glossary of a text is an alphabetical listing of words, terms and abbreviations and their definitions which are found and used in the book. The glossary is typically found at the end of a book before the index.
• The table of contents: The table of contents has the headings, and often, subheadings, of the contents of the book. The index of a book is the last section of a book. An index contains words which are found in the book and the page or pages where the words or phrases can be found.
• The index: The text feature that allows the reader of the text to readily find information about the word that they are looking up.
• A search engine: A search engine is a computer software program that searches of information on the World Wide Web. It is similar to the index of the book.

Text features help readers to organize their thoughts as they are reading the passage.

Some text features include:

• The title of a text: The title of a text alerts the reader about the contents of the text which can be a formal text or an informal text such as a memo, an announcement, a newspaper article, an email, an essay, a research study and an essay, for example.
• The headings of a text: Headings of both formal and informal texts are often used when the text is a longer and lengthier one than a simple paragraph or two and also in shorter texts to highlight and draw attention to some of the critical parts of an announcement or public notice, for example.
• The subheadings of a text: The subheadings of a text further narrow and define the content of the text headings.
• Fonts: The size and shapes of numbers and letters that are used in informal and formal texts.
• Traditional fonts: Fonts such as the Arial and times new Roman, with a 10 or 12 point size, are acceptable for the composition of formal texts.
• Aesthetics: The quality of a work in terms of its eye pleasing and eye catching beauty.
• Sidebars: Sidebars are pictures, graphics and/or texts that appear and are placed outside of the margins of the remainder of a text or within the text itself when they are walled off and distinctly differentiated from the rest of the text. These sidebars feature some important detail about the content of the text.
• In text citations: Those citations that occur and are placed in and within a text sporadically and intermittently to give credit to the person, other than the author, who has, or had, this thought or idea.
• End text notations or citations: These notations or citations are found at the end of the paper on a separate page sometimes referred to as a bibliography or reference page.
• The key or legend of a text: The key or legend of a text includes information about the symbols found in a text or another form of printed communication such as a map.
• The glossary of a text: The glossary of a text is an alphabetical listing of words, terms and abbreviations and their definitions which are found and used in the book. The glossary is typically found at the end of a book before the index.
• The table of contents: The table of contents has the headings, and often, subheadings, of the contents of the book. The index of a book is the last section of a book. An index contains words which are found in the book and the page or pages where the words or phrases can be found.
• The index: The text feature that allows the reader of the text to readily find information about the word that they are looking up.
• A search engine: A search engine is a computer software program that searches of information on the World Wide Web. It is similar to the index of the book.