Structure in writing: an introduction Finding text structures Finding knowledge structures Symbols of knowledge structures Exercise: mapping Exercise: writing from maps Example: salmon extinction Original text Scanning for key words Making an outline Highlighting structure words Semantic mapping   Lawrie Hunter Kochi University of Technology lawrie@info.kochi-tech.ac.jp

Making an outline of the text is a good way to find how the text is structured. Highlight all the structure words in the text before you start making your outline. This will help you with your outline. After you have your outline, however, you may find the writing is not so good. Maybe the knowledge structure and the text structure are different. How can you find the knowledge structure?

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