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

 Semantic map SYMBOLS

Description / Classification / Sequence / Cause-effect / Difference / Contradiction
Look at your outline.
Look at your highlighted structure words.

Make a map of the information in the text.
The map should show how the information is connected.
This is called a
semantic map or sometimes
we call it a content map.

To make your map, you need some symbols.
Use Hunter's symbols, please.

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