Tham khảo tài liệu 'about the ged writing exam 7', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | ORGANIZATION On this basic level of main idea support everything in the passage or paragraph should support or develop that main idea. When sentences or paragraphs lose focus or stray from that controlling idea the passage or paragraph loses its effectiveness. Writers can use several different strategies for organizing their support. One of these strategies often serves as the overall organizing principle for the text while individual sections may use other techniques as well. For example imagine an essay comparing and contrasting two film versions of Frankenstein. The support will be organized by comparison and contrast. But the writer may also use other organizational techniques within that comparison and contrast structure. For example he or she may use order of importance when explaining what makes one version better than the other. The four most common organizational patterns are 1. chronological order 2. order of importance 3. comparison and contrast 4. cause and effect To answer many of the questions about organization on the GED you will need to be able to determine the writer s purpose and to recognize organizational patterns on both the essay and paragraph levels. By identifying the organizational pattern you can determine where to insert sentences or paragraphs and whether any sentences or paragraphs are misplaced such as a sentence that is out of chronological order. Chronological Order When writers use time as their main organization principle it is called chronological order. They describe events in the order in which they did happen will happen or should happen. Much of what you read is organized in this way including historical texts instructions and procedures and essays about personal experiences. Passages organized by chronology typically use a lot of transitional words and phrases to help us follow the passage of time. The transitions help us see when things happened and in what order. They help us follow along when the passage shifts from one .
