made up of sentences having the property of grammatical cohesion
coherence
it deals with cohesion
text analysis
is made up of utterances having the property of coherence
discourse
it investigates coherence
discource analysis
is a cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive a meaning from a text. it is always an interaction between the text and the reader.
reading
means looking at the readily visible part of the text
previewing
means you look for the main point of the reading and identify the ideas that develop
skimming
the reader is looking for specific information
scanning