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RWS Text Organization Study Guide

This document provides guidance on studying for a writing course. It defines text and discourse, and lists the key properties of well-written text: organization, coherence and cohesion, appropriate language use, and proper mechanics. It also describes various graphic organizers that can be used, including time pattern organizers, classification pattern organizers, comparison and contrast pattern organizers, and cause-and-effect pattern organizers. Finally, it outlines different patterns of development for writing texts, such as narration, description, exemplification, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, problem-solution, and persuasion.

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RWS Text Organization Study Guide

This document provides guidance on studying for a writing course. It defines text and discourse, and lists the key properties of well-written text: organization, coherence and cohesion, appropriate language use, and proper mechanics. It also describes various graphic organizers that can be used, including time pattern organizers, classification pattern organizers, comparison and contrast pattern organizers, and cause-and-effect pattern organizers. Finally, it outlines different patterns of development for writing texts, such as narration, description, exemplification, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, problem-solution, and persuasion.

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STUDY GUIDE FOR RWS

EVENT 1/STEP 1
What is text? TEXT is a large unit of written
Description or details of instruction
language. It is a connected discourse.
EVENT 2/STEP 2
What is discourse? DISCOURSE is an expression Description or details of instruction
of ideas. It applies to both written and writing
Listing pattern organizers- this pattern is used
language.
when the author provides a series of details
that does not require any order.
PROPERTIES OF WELL-WRITTEN TEXT

 ORGANIZATION – this refers to the TOPIC


arrangement of your ideas in your work or Detail
in the text 1:
 COHERENCE AND COHESION- refers to the Detail
connection of ideas and connection 2:
between sentence and between Detail
paragraphs. The texts are coherent when 3:
they contain one controlling idea. It
focusses only in one topic and is Classification pattern organizers- is used when
supported by another sentences that is the author divides a group into subgroups or
related to the main topic. Cohesion refers smaller groups.
to the way we use vocabulary and
grammatical structures to make Comparison and contrast pattern organizers- it
connections between the ideas within a shows the similarities and the differences of
text. two or more subjects.
 APPROPRIATE LANGUEGE USE- refers to
the acceptable style of language for a Cause-and-effect pattern organizers- is used
particular form of text. when the author intends to express why
 PROPER MECHANICS- refers to the something happened or what resulted from a
conventions of writing which includes particular event that happened.
capitalization, punctuation, spelling,
numerals, abbreviations, acronyms, and Generalization and example pattern organizer-
contractions. is used when the author explains a general idea
and discusses it in specific terms using
examples.
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

Time pattern organizers- is used when ideas in


a text need to be arranged in chronological
order such as in stories and procedures. Definition Pattern Organizers- this pattern is
Ex. used when the author provides a meaning of a
new or difficult word.

TERM

Definition ANTONYMS

Synonyms NON-EXAMPLES
Techniques in selecting and organizing
information

Patterns of Development  BRAINSTORMING- it is a process of


o Narration writing down specific topics gathered
 Choose an appropriate from different resources.
topic, which is a story
 Compose a clear thesis 5 strategies of brainstorming
statement that tells 1. Cubing
your impression or 2. Free writing
point of view about the 3. Listing
story 4. Mapping
 Support the thesis 5. Researching
statement with enough
details, which includes  GRAPHIC ORGANIZER-
the elements of a story.  TOPIC OUTLINE-
o Description  SENTENCE OUTLINE-
 Presents the writer’s
dominant impression
about a person, place,
thing, or event as the
main idea
 The main idea of the
descriptive text is
supported by vivid
details that appeal to
the readers’- hearing,
sight, smell, taste and
touch.
 Must contain transition
words and phrases that
signal special order

o Exemplification/classification –
you must pay attention to the
categories which are used to
divide the general ide into
subgroups.
o Comparison and contrast
o Cause and Effect
o Problem-solution
o Persuasion
o Definition text

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