Tham khảo tài liệu 'finding main idea 6', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | LESSON 7 Order of Importance LESSON SUMMARY Continuing your study of the structure of reading material this lesson shows you how writers use order of importance from least to most important or from most to least important. Understanding this commonly used structure improves your reading comprehension by helping you see what s most important in a piece of writing. It s a scientifically proven fact People remember most what they learn first and last in a given session. Writers have instinctively known this for a long time. That s why many pieces of writing are organized not in chronological order but by order of importance. Imagine again that the writer is like an architect. How would this type of writer arrange the rooms By hierarchy. A hierarchy is a group of things arranged by rank or order of importance. In this type of organizational pattern hierarchy not chronology determines order. Thus this architect would lay the rooms out like so When you walk in the front door the first room you encounter would be the president s office then the vice president s then the assistant vice president s and so on down to the lowest ranking worker. Or vice versa the architect may choose for you to meet the least important employee first the one with the least power in the company. Then the next and the next until at last you reach the president. Likewise in writing ideas may be arranged in order of importance. In this pattern which idea comes first Not the one that happened first but the one that is most or least important. 61 ORDER OF IMPORTANCE Most Important to Least Important In the following paragraph the writer starts with what is most important hoping that by putting this item first the reader will be sure to remember it. After you read the passage answer the questions that follow. Each question is followed by its answer to guide you through your reading of the passage. Choosing a doctor is an important decision. Here are some things you can do to make the best choice. The
