New technology texts

Websites:

Websites has a non-linear presentation of text; emerging squares with text, hyperlinks, pictures, videos or animations interrupts our reading for top to bottom of the site. Also, the presentation of content is limited to the screen size; because this reason, information is broken down into manageable segments (headlines or an extract from the text) linking with the complete text.

New characteristics are avaible to call the reader's attention, the use of graphological features makes the reading more interesting and interactive.

E-mail:

The e-mail structure is similar to physical letters, but in some cases, it can be close to an informal and spoken conversation, depending on the relationship between senders and receivers.

Messages are often written quickly, because this reason there is more tolerance to spelling errors than in formal letters. The informality of this mean of communication is illustrated by the use of greetings and farewells like 'Hi'. Abbreviations and loosely constructed sentences are normally use, as well like the omission of punctuation marks, an capital letters.

Text messages:

The text messaging style is determined by the screen size of cellphones that doesn't permits the reading of large messages, and also because the keypad compression. This characteristic style includes the use of shortened words, phonetic spelling, letter and number homophones and grammatical compression in general.