Big Idea
Texts are socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed.
Elaboration
“Text” and “texts” are generic terms referring to all forms of oral, written, visual, or digital communication:
- Oral texts include speeches, poems, plays, oral stories, and songs.
- Written texts include novels, articles, and short stories.
- Visual texts include posters, photographs, and other images.
- Digital texts include electronic forms of all of the above.
- Oral, written, and visual elements can be combined (e.g., in dramatic presentations, graphic novels, films, web pages, advertisements).