The phrase "consult the text" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to ask someone to refer to a written source of information to help answer their question or gain clarity on a topic. For example: "If you're unsure of the answer, you can consult the text we read in class yesterday."
By spinning cylinders installed near one Mayan drinking vessel and consulting the text panels, visitors can read their way through the striking hieroglyphics inscribed on the outside of the vessel.
The principle Halliday provides, from the construal point of view, is that of consulting the text: relevant context is that part of the extralinguistic situation which is illuminated by language-in-use, by the language component of the speech event, the other name for which is text.
Physicians responded significantly (p < 0.001) more rapidly with "Mister VCM" than when consulting the text directly (on average, 2.2 times faster with "Mister VCM").
One F2 thought that consulting the texts (the BNF) on the Smartphone was: Much, much quicker than flicking through the paper version… Looking things up in the paper BNF for the n-th time on ward rounds puts time pressure on the junior doctor causing stress and increasing risk of errors.
Zabarella himself read Greek and could therefore consult the Greek text of Aristotle and the commentators.
Finally, readers eager to venture deeper into the recent scientific literature may consult the online text by Allchin (2009a) and its bibliography.
Whereupon, you consult the wall-text.
But I urge you to consult the wall texts for concise descriptions of the functional elements he reckons with and the philosophy that guides him.
For some basic facts on time scale calculus and dynamic equations on time scales, one may consult the excellent texts by Bohner and Peterson [1, 2].
