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Understanding Relationships in Writing: Transitions and Organizational Patterns

This chapter emphasizes the active role of reading as a creative act and explores how authors clarify their ideas through relationships in writing. Two common methods used are transitions and patterns of organization. Transitions serve to connect ideas and indicate relationships between them, while patterns of organization group supporting details effectively. It covers addition relationships, which present a series of supporting details, and time relationships that emphasize the sequence of events. Understanding these concepts enhances comprehension and clarity in reading and writing.

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Understanding Relationships in Writing: Transitions and Organizational Patterns

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  1. Chapter 5 RDG 081

  2. Quote • This is not to pretend that reading is a passive act. On the contrary, it is highly creative, or re-creative; itself an art. • -Cary, (Arthur) Joyce Lunel

  3. 6 minute • http://www.timeme.com/timer-stopwatch.htm

  4. Relationships 1 • Authors use two common methods to show relationships and make their ideas clear. • 1. Transitions • 2. Patterns of Organization • 3. Addition Relationships • 4. Time Relationships

  5. Transitions • Transitions are: • 1 a: passage from one state, stage, subject, or place to another :changeb: a movement, development, or evolution from one form, stage, or style to another • Words or phrases like another, that show relationships between two things. Transitions show how details bring together the main idea.

  6. Cont’d • Words that show addition: signal added words • First • Second • First • To begin with • For one thing • Other • Another • Also • In addition • Next • Moreover • Further

  7. Words that show time • Before • Previously • First of all • Immediately • Next • Then • Following • After • When • While • Until • Often • Eventually • Finally • frequently

  8. Patterns of Organization • Shows relationships between supporting details in paragraphs, essays, and chapters. • 1. List of Items Pattern • 2. Time order Pattern

  9. Chapter Review • In this chapter, you learned how authors use transitions and patterns of organization to make their ideas clear. • Transitions show relationships between ideas in sentences • Patterns of organization show relationships between supporting details in paragraphs.

  10. Two common kinds of relationships that authors use to make their ideas clear. • Addition Relationships: • presented list or series of reasons, examples, or other details that support an idea. No time order…whatever order the author prefers. • Transition words that signal addition relationships include; for one thing, second, etc. • Time Relationships • A series of events or steps in the order in which they happen, resulting in a time order. • Words that signal time relationships include; first, next, then, after, and last

  11. In Class Practice • Master y Test 1: pg. 209 & 210 • Master y Test 2: pg. 211 & 212 • Master y Test 3: pg. 213 & 214

  12. Homework • Mastery Test 4: pg. 215 & 216 • Mastery Test 5: pg. 217 & 218 • Mastery Test 6: pg. 219 & 220 • Let’s Roll: pg 483-492 All

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