The article about salmon
extinction comes from the
Daily Yomiuri newspaper. It's not a long piece of
writing,
but it has a lot of information in it.
Look at the original text.
There are many ways to look at a piece
of writing,
and there are some ways that will suit your way of
thinking.
Before we read, of course, we should
scan and find key words.
For looking at text structure,
outline form is useful.
It is very useful to find the
structure words in a piece of text.
Remember, though, that there are two kinds of
structures,
and two kinds of structure words:
-text
structure
-knowledge structure
When we try to find knowledge
structure,
it's good to make a semantic map.
Often we think a piece of writing has
just one information structure, but this is often not
true:
Many writers do not use one large
structure for their writing.
There are many ways of mapping a piece of writing,
and usually more than one way of mapping is
good.