Functional Text

WHAT IS FUNCTIONAL TEXT ??T

• Functional text is used for everyday information. It is called functional because it helps you function in your day-to-day life.

EXAMPLES OF FUNCTIONAL TEXT

• EMAIL

Electronic mail, most commonly abbreviated email and e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages. E-mail systems are based on a store-and-forward model in which e-mail server computer systems accept, forward, deliver and store messages on behalf of users, who only need to connect to the e-mail infrastructure, typically an e-mail server, with a network-enabled device for the duration of message submission or retrieval. Originally, e-mail was always transmitted directly from one user's device to another's; nowadays this is rarely the case. 

• LETTER 

A letter is a written message from one party to another. The role of letters in communication has changed

significantly since the 19th century.

BROCHURE

A brochure or pamphlet is a leaflet advertisement. Brochures may advertise locations, events, hotels, products, services, etc. They are usually

succinct in language and eye-catching in design, and usually using a headlines.

• BANNER

A banner is a flag or other piece of cloth bearing  a symbol, logo, slogan or other message. Bsnner - making is an ancient craft.

• MESSAGE

Any notice, word or communication, written or verbal, sent from person to other.

• PAMPHLET

A pamphlet is an unbound booklet (that is, without a hard cover or binding). It may consist of a single sheet of paper

that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths (called a leaflet), or it may consist of a few

pages that are folded in half and saddle stapled at the crease to make a simple book.

• ANNOUNCEMENTS 

  • ADVERTISEMENT

  Advertising is a form of communication intended to persuade an audience (viewers, readers or listeners) to take some action. It usually includes the name of a product or service and how that product or service could benefit the consumer, to persuade potential customers to purchase or to consume that particular brand. Modern advertising developed with the rise of mass production in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

  
  

  • MEMO

  A memorandum or memo is a document or other communication that helps the memory by recording events or observations on a topic, such as may be used in a business office.
  

An announcement in a public place, such as a newspaper or the window of a shop, is a short piece of writing

telling people about something or asking for something.