Tham khảo tài liệu 'finding main idea 10', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | LESSON Being Structurally Sound Putting It All Together LESSON SUMMARY Today s lesson pulls together what you ve learned in Lessons 6-9 and gives you more practice in discerning the structure of a reading passage. Like an architect designing a building a writer must have a blueprint a plan for how he or she will organize the passage. So far in this section we ve looked at several ways that authors may organize their information and ideas Lesson 6 Chronological order. Ideas are arranged in the order in which they occurred or in the order in which they should occur . Lesson 7 Order of importance. Ideas are arranged in order of increasing importance least important idea to most important idea or in order of decreasing importance most important idea to least important idea . Lesson 8 Compare and contrast. Ideas are arranged so that parallel aspects of item A and item B are compared and contrasted either in block style AAAABBBB or point-by-point style ABABABAB . Lesson 9 Cause and effect. Ideas are arranged so that readers can see what event or series of events caused something to take place or what effect an event or series of events had. 81 BEING STRUCTURALLY SOUND PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER If any of the terms or strategies on the previous page seem unfamiliar to you STOP. Please take a few moments to review whatever lesson is unclear. Practice Although writers often rely on one particular structure to organize their ideas in many cases writers use a combination of these structures. For example a writer may want to compare and contrast the causes of World War I and those of World War II or a writer may want to describe in chronological order the events that led to caused the failure of the computer system. Thus today we will look at how writers may combine these strategies. In addition we ll continue to strengthen your reading comprehension skills by including strategies from the first week Finding the facts Determining the main idea Defining vocabulary words in context
