INTEGRATED READING AND WRITING

TEXT FEATURESACADEMIC THOUGHT PATTERNS

Adult Learning Academy

Examples of Text FeaturesTitle

Table of contents

Headings or subtitles

Sidebars

Pictures and captions; Inset photos

Labeled diagrams, cutaways, and cross sections

Charts and graphs

Glossary

Index

Structure:

Multi-paragraph:

- Introduction

Thesis = Main Idea

- Body

- Conclusion

-Paragraph:

- - Topic sentence =

- Main Idea

- - Body

- - Concluding sentence

Common Academic Thought Patterns

NarrativeIllustrationDefinitionCause-EffectCompare-ContrastClassification

Any text, whether one paragraph or multiple paragraphs, may use a variety

of patterns .

Typical Ways to Organize Information in the Medical Field

We should also be able to identify and use:

Lists Items in a list can be rearranged

and the information will not change its meaning

Sequences /Processes Timelines How-to Instructions

Graphics, Data Structures

Expository

Text structure is organized by:

- Main Ideas

- Major Supporting Details

- Minor Supporting Details

Try this for defining fiction, non-fiction, narrative, and expository:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgeWCmFU-Ic

Narrative

Structure:

Beginning

Middle

End

ElementsCharactersSettingsThemesCentral Problem, or ConflictSequential presentation of

events (usually chronological)

Resolution to the Conflict

http://issuu.com/dtomazin/docs/walrath?mode=window

A Medical

Narrative(with a variety of identifiable patterns and features)

From a collection of graphic stories by fourth-year medical students at Penn State College of Medicine.

Let’s identify a few patterns and their characteristics within our narrative:

Definitely a narrative conflict – she’s

wondering, can I help here? Maybe even, Do

I want to get involved?

Cause and effect !

The causes are divided into categories =

classification !

The items in

the categorie

s are listed.

A mini-medical

narrative, right?

Will it come to this

process??

Sequence is crucial

here.

Narrative

Resolution

What will we do with the ability to

identify and write with these patterns?

Integrate information in a text with our own knowledge

Group related ideasQuote, paraphrase, and

summarize important information

Interpret graphics, charts, tablesSynthesize information Apply information in a text to

real-world situations4_18_13

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