rws - midterms

• Pattern of development


  Logical arrangement of ideas that helps you follow ideas easily and understand a text better
• Definition


  Gives a detailed explanation or meaning of the subject, explained through the use of illustrations, examples, and descriptions
• Exemplification


  Provides ideas or statements through specific and concrete examples of something to expound it
• Description (sensory and spatial)


  Provides details on the idea by using either a sensory or spatial pattern
• Sensory pattern


  Ideas are arranged based on one or all of the five senses
• Spatial pattern


  Ideas are arranged based on the location or physical space
• Chronology/Procedure


  Organizes ideas or events according to time, in the form of a narration or process
• Narration


  Sequences events according to time they occurred
• Process


  Organizes details based on stages or steps
• Listing


  Organizes ideas using enumeration, does not have the element of time, presents series of items to support the main idea
• Comparison-Contrast


  Organizes ideas based on how concepts are similar or different from one another
• Classification and Division


  Organizes ideas into categories or division based on criteria or standard
• Avoid oversimplifying for it may cause stereotyping
• Cause and Effect


  Organizes ideas and details based on the cause, reason, and the result or consequences of a certain phenomenon
• Problem-Solution


  Organizes ideas into problems and proposed solutions
• Persuasion


  Organizes ideas to show how evidence leads to a logical conclusion of argument
• Strategies for effective critical reading

  • Reading a text with an open mind
  • Examining facts and examples
  • Checking for the accuracy and reliability of the sources
  • Distinguishing facts from opinions
• Intertext


  Get ideas from other text that is from your background knowledge to support the idea in the current text you're interacting with
• Hypertext


  There is a link in the text to lead you to the supporting information
• Claim of Fact


  There is evidence if the statement is whether true or false, something based on information and accuracy of information
• Claim of Value


  Based on judgement and evaluation on a philosophical, aesthetic, or moral standpoint
• Claim of Policy


  Implementing policy to be followed, based on supporting information, conditional words are should and would