miércoles, 27 de abril de 2011

New technology texts

In the technology texts we can find tree examples

1. Websites

Some websites have features that make websites a distintive form of text
- The material is organised and presented is influenced by the dimensions of the screen.
- The text are non-linear. The traditional linear text is read progressively from the top of the page to the bottom.
- The information is broken down into manageable. Graphological features, with the ue of colour, animation and visual images are important to indicate hypertext links.
- Websites are much more interactive than traditional written texts.

2. E-mail

Some E-mails do have distinctive linguistic characteristics. The informality of E-mail, together with the interactive relationship between senders and recivers, makes it a form of written communication that is in many ways close to spoken language.
E-mail language features

- Lexis is often conversation. This frequently use colloquialism and contractions.  There are more tolerance of spelling errors than in traditional texts, the messages are quicker and are not usually checked for errors.

- Grettings and farewells shows the informality of the medium. The most comon way of openig messages is "Hi" and sometimes greetings are dispensed with the sender and receiver's name at the top of the message.

- Grammatical features include loosely constructive sentences, that is similar to the natural flow of speech. To hurry the typing, some punctuation marks and capital letters may be omitted.

- There are a lot of methods to suggest the prosodic features of speech, like the tone of the voice. For expample: non-standart spelling to suggest pronunciation, etc.

- A large nunmber of abbreviations are used in e-mails, chating, etc. Example: JK (just kidding).

- Emoticons are graphical symbols used to represent body language and facial expressions. Example: :-) (smile)

miércoles, 20 de abril de 2011

Yellowstone's Supervolcano More Massive Than Expected


Yellowstone's Super volcano More Massive than Expected

by: Rodrigo Ewertz F.

The scientist of the University of Utah discovered that the Yellowstone volcano can be more massive than expected.
They study the massive of the volcano and they create another graphic to represent the massive that is inside of the volcano. This graphic was created during this week, but the studies start a lot of years ago. The studies that they do, said that there will no be an eruption, is only more massive, there is no danger.
The Co-author Robert B. Smith, professor emeritus and research professor of geophysics at the University of Utah, and a coordinating scientist of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory said: "It’s a totally new and different way of imaging and looking at the volcanic roots of Yellowstone," This significate that we must study more that volcano and his massive structure, and not only the Yellowstone’s volcano, we have to study all the volcanoes and the nature. This also significate that we have to locks to the volcano with different eyes, we must have more respect. The graphic that was created by the University of Utah will be considered in so many important occasions for do statistics, etc. They discovered now that the waves are generated by the earth wakes.
In conclusion, the scientist of the University of Utah discovered a new graphic that said that the Yellowstone’s super volcano can be more massive than expected. This graphic is so important for do important statistics. The studies that they do, said that there will be no eruption. Important scientist give there opinions like Mr. Robert Smith. I think that this new graphic that create is good because it gives important information like the volcano’s massive.