Tham khảo tài liệu 'finding main idea 4', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Structure Now that you ve covered the basics you can begin to focus on one specific reading comprehension strategy structure. How do writers organize their ideas You might want to think of a writer as an architect. Every building has a number of rooms. But how these rooms are arranged is up to the architect. The same goes for a piece of writing how the sentences and ideas are arranged is entirely up to the writer. However most architects and most writers generally follow certain patterns not because they can t think on their own but because these patterns work. In this section you ll study four organizational patterns that work for writers 1. Chronological order 2. Order of importance 3. Compare and contrast 4. Cause and effect You ll learn to recognize these patterns and some of the reasons why writers use them. 51 LESSON Start from the Beginning Chronological Order LESSON SUMMARY This lesson focuses on one of the simplest structures writers use chronological order or arrangement of events by the order in which they occured. There are many ways to tell a story. Some stories start in the middle and flash backward to the beginning a few start at the end and tell the story in reverse. But most of the time stories start at the beginning. Writers often begin with what happened first and then tell what happened next and next and so on until the end. When writers tell a story in this order from beginning to end in the order in which things happened they are telling it in chronological order. Chronology is the arrangement of events in the order in which they occurred. .
