CRCB --Chapter 8 Outline

•Critical Reading for College and Beyond

•CHAPTER EIGHT

•CHAPTER GOALS
After learning Chapter 8, you should be able to demonstrate:

•The different methods of textbook organization.

•Your understanding of words that signal the different methods.

•Techniques that will help you identify, organize, and remember textbook methods of organization.

•Why Authors Use Methods of Organization

•Presents information in a logical format.

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•Presents information that suits the subject matter and goals.

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•Helps readers make sense of what they are reading and helps them remember the content.

•Organizational Patterns

•Listing

•Analysis

•Cause/Effect

•Comparison/Contrast

•Definition/Example

•Sequence

•What Are OWCs?

•OWCs are organizational word clues.

•These word clues alert you to the twists and turns in the path of an author’s thinking.

•They help you to determine the level of importance of an author’s ideas.

•They indicate the overall organization of written text.

•Examples of OWCs

•Listing: first, second, first of all, finally

•Analysis: features, types, properties, factors, findings

•Cause/Effect: since, reasons, affect, thus, causes, if…then

•Examples of OWCs

•Comparison/Contrast: however, on the other hand, like, but, yet, different from, in other words, similar to

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•Definition/Example: defined as, another meaning, is, also referred to as

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•Sequence: first, steps, procedures, events, rules, process, order of events

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•Chapter Vocabulary

•Organizational Word Clues (OWCs)

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•Listing

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•Analysis

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•Cause/Effect

•Comparison/Contrast

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•Defintion/Example

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•Sequence

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