8 Understanding text organization
Writers structure, or organize, their writing in many different ways. Recognizing the way in which a text has been organized will help you understand its meaning more fully. A writer may want, for example, to outline a situation, discuss a problem and propose a solution. This will usually result in a particular pattern of organization. Or a writer may want to compare and contrast two ideas and will choose one of two basic structures commonly used to compare and contrast.
Another feature related to organization is a writers use of time. To give an account of events or describe a process, writers will often use a chronological order, in which events are recounted in thesgroupsin which they have occurred. Other writers will choose to organize an account of events in different ways, perhaps with repeated contrasts between past and present time.
9 Assessing a writers purpose
Once you understand the organization of a text, you can then recognize the writers purpose more clearly. The text organization a writer selects will partly depend upon his or her particular purpose. A writer may want to inform or persuade, and he or she will select a structure or pattern of organization according to this purpose.
A writer may also intend to do both of these things in a written text - to inform as will as persuade. In such cases it is often helpful to try to assess which of these purposes seems to be more important or dominant.
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