Writing clearly Organize REVIEW

Organization and summary

Have you ever been ashamed of something? (Write for five minutes about how that made you react to the situation).

The step from expressing information to summarizing & understanding authors.

organization is a reflection of the order an author imposes imposed on impressions

All learning summarizes to a great extent the accumulating evidence in an inquiry
A record of that inquiry are found in an author's paragraphs and chapters
the organizing of those notes can occur by answering significant questions about what you are learning as you read.
Writing is an expression of ordered thought.

Ways to organize thoughts.

Questions | Approaches | Means to order thinking | Source of evidence?

Question?

What has Octavio Paz condensed the entire Columbian exchange into with regard to the history of Mexico? How does he catch your attention?

1) In any paragraph make a list of the things you understand and another list of what you don't understand and explain what is not clear to you:

2) Take a paragraph and summarize what he is saying in your own words?

Does he for example discuss Work and labor (So is there evidence in Paz)

Logical order arises from those two steps of sifting information, repeating certain phrases of the author and tying those to facts, and evidence for the arguments you find in this reading.

Syllogism

The Columbian exchange was impossible without women; while Bardic history often neglects women, we see in the historical development of Mexico after the Columbian exchange in the form of Cortés invasion, a whole world comes into view of women that is so significant to the life of a nation because it is lost in our recall or recollection of the past.

Descriptive, but may not be informative because it lacks an argument.

Analogy:

1. Comparing a list of contrasts and comparisons of the argument

2. If -- then statements

Because the Native Amerindians had survived, in Mexico then _____________________?

If the shame of a person can also be a shame of an entire nation, then ____________________?

Metaphor:

Does Paz use any comparisons between two unlike things to make an analogy and provide for some framework to express an idea or concept?

Etymology, based on words and phrases

Chronology, based on events; causes of events & outcomes of events

Ecology, based on the Crosby understanding of biology in historic events.