Effective-reading-strategies

1 Effective Reading Strategies The structure of texts When we read, we are looking at the communication of some kind of meaning in a structure. Since writers choose to organise material in a particular way, we need to be able to see this structure in the... More

1 Effective Reading Strategies The structure of texts When we read, we are looking at the communication of some kind of meaning in a structure. Since writers choose to organise material in a particular way, we need to be able to see this structure in the text. In texts: • ideas are built up from sentence to paragraph to whole text; • ideas and concepts tend to be developed from parts or segments to a whole; • argument can be developed by way of amplification (ie. when a proposition is stated in some kind of preliminary form, and then expanded upon); • argument can be developed by analogy (ie. when ideas are developed by comparison with a similar situation), or the writer may use illustration (ie. exposition by way of examples); • argument is usually either inductive or deductive. An inductive argument is one that begins with specific facts, and uses these to establish a conclusion, while a deductive argument is one in which the writer puts forward a general proposition, and then procee Less