Critical Reading - Chapter 8

Chapter 8 : Textbook Methods of Organization

1. Being able to recognize organizational methods ( listing, analysis, cause/effect, comparison, contrast, definition/example, and sequence)

2. It helps us understand the ideas in our textbooks and how they are connected to each other because the will fit into logical patterns we are already familiar with.

3. It will also help us to remember what we have read, because we are not memorizing facts in isolation, but relating them to each other to from patterns that hold and organize them in our memory.

4. A useful way to identify an author’s method of organization is to look for the organizational word clues (OWCs)