Difference between seaking writing

Speaking

Quick, fleeting, hesitation, grammatically dense, intricate, involces relationship, repitation not always
easy, speed set by speaker, high redundancy

Writing

Slow, permanent, organised, more lexically dense, more detached, can be re-read, speed set b reader,
much less redundancy

TEXTS

A – Narrative

B – Procedure

C–

D – Ad

E – Newspapaer

Lexical, functional words

Lexical:

Nounx,

Lexical verbs (e.g run, walk sit)

Adjectives (red, happy)

Adverb (very, carefully)

Funtion words

Determiners

Pronousns

Prepositions

Conjunctiongs

Numerals

Auxillary verbs
Lexical density: lexical words/total words x 100

High lexical density = academic writing, formal writing

Nominalisation – useful because we can do several things to add information to nouns in english