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the term for how an author organizes a text
text structure
This structure includes details to give the reader a mental picture
Description
A writer presents a problem or a series of problems, and offers solutions on how to solve them.
Problem & Solution
Authors present information about events or steps in a process, in the order in which they take or have taken place.
Sequence
Authors use this structure to present information about things that are different but have something in common, such as two points of view on a subject.
Compare & Contrast
Explains why something happened and what happened as a result
Cause & Effect
These signal words are clues to what text structure? Because, Since, If Then, Due to
Cause & Effect
These signal words are clues to what text structure? for example, for instance, such as, in addition, descriptive language
Description
These signal words are clues to what text structure? Similarly, Alike, Same as, Just like, In contrast, A difference between, Unlike
Compare & Contrast
These signal words are clues to what text structure? First, next, last Before, after, During, While, Dates, Times, Steps
Sequence
These signal words are clues to what text structure? Since, Question, Problem, Solution, Solve
Problem-Solution
What structure is used? "Those who could not board elevators rushed the stairway door. They caused a pileup so that those in front could not open the door. Whenever someone tried to get it open, the crowd pinned her against it."
Cause & Effect
What structure is used? Onlookers saw many dreadful sights, none more so than the end of a love affair. A young man appeared at a window. Gently, he helped a young woman step onto the windowsill, held her away from the building—and let go.
Description
What structure is used? Yet their thinking, in these last moments of life, may have gone like this: If I jump, my family will have a body to identify and bury, but if I stay in this room, there will be nothing left.
Cause & Effect
What structure is used? By 5:15 p.m., exactly thirty-five minutes after flames burst from beneath a cutting table, firefighters had brought the blaze under control. An hour later, Chief Croker made his inspection.
Sequence
What structure is used? Streams of water playing on the top three floors.
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