EAPP REVIEWER 2

• refers to the internal organization of a text. As

  authors write a text to communicate an idea, they will use a structure that goes along with the idea (Meyer,1985).

  Text Structure
• six common patterns of organization

  1. Chronological

  2. Cause and effect

  3. Compare and contrast

  4. Problem and solution

  5. Sequence

  6. Spatial / Descriptive
• information is organized in order of time

  Chronological
• Chronic 


  time
• Logic


  order
• an action and its result are explained.

  Cause and Effect
• tells how two things are similar

  and different.

  Compare and Contrast
• a problem and answer are suggested.

  Problem and Solution
• information is listed step - by- step

  and explains how to do it or how it happens.

  Sequence or Process Writing
• describes something in order of

  space describes how something looks.

  Spatial or Descriptive Writing
• Signal words: shortly, since, second, third, immediately and etc.

  Chronological
• Signal words: shortly, since, second, third, immediately and etc.

  Cause and Effect
• Signal words: (______ –also, as well as, both, compared to, in

  comparison, similarly, and etc.)

  (________– although, on the contrary, on the other hand, in

  spite of, unlike and etc.)

  Compare and Contrast
• Signal words: answer, challenge, improve, respond, suggest and etc.

  Problem and Solution
• Signal words: next, later, last, finally, in the end, at first and etc.


  Sequence or Process Writing
• Signal words: above, adjacent to, away, below, behind, nearby, toward


  Spatial or Descriptive Writing