Reading Strategies
This strategy involves stating the main idea of a text in a concise and accurate way.
What is Summarizing?
This organizational pattern explains why something happened and what the result was.
What is Cause and Effect?
This text feature acts as a mini dictionary at the end of a text.
What is a glossary?
This type of rhetoric appeals to ethical thinking or provides credibility.
What is ethos?
This step (include the number) involves correcting spelling, punctuation, capitalization and grammar.
What is Step 4: Editing?
This strategy involves identifying unfamiliar vocabulary or terms and looking up the definitions or finding additional information in other sources before continuing to read any further.
What is Searching and Selecting?
This organizational pattern describes an issue and then proposes one or more ways to solve it.
What is Problem and Solution?
This text feature provides information on where to locate specific topics within the text.
What is an Index?
This type of rhetoric appeals to logic and provides facts and/or statistics.
What is logos?
This step (include the number) involves two different parts, neither of which require writing complete sentences.
What is Step 1: Prewriting (Brainstorming and Outline)
This reading strategy involves thinking about what you already know about the subject before beginning to read.
What is Activation?
This organizational pattern details the characteristics of a person, place, or thing.
What is Descriptive?
This text feature appears at the beginning and contains page numbers for chapters in the text.
What is the Table of Contents?
This type of rhetoric appeals to emotions and can sometimes be considered a guilt trip.
What is pathos?
This step (include the number) involves formatting the text so that it is readable for the audience.
What is Step 5: Publishing?
This reading strategy involves reading between the lines and making an educated guess.
What is Inferring?
This organizational pattern presents events in the order in which they occurred.
What is Chronological?
This text feature uses an asterisk or sometimes a small triangle to provide additional information at the bottom of the page.
What is Footnote?
Identify the rhetoric in the passage:
"Insulin costs about $10 a vial to make. But drug companies charge families like Joshua and his dad up to 30 times that amount. . . .
let’s cap the cost of insulin at $35 a month so everyone can afford it. And drug companies will do very, very well . . . ”
What is logos?
This step (include the number) involves creative thinking and putting general ideas into paragraphs.
What is Step 2: Drafting (rough draft)?
This strategy involves thinking about the information and quizzing one's self about the topic and making personal application.
What is Questioning?
This organizational pattern provides a series of steps that must be completed in order.
What is Sequential?
This text feature can be small letters, shapes, or numbers found after certain words that will direct the reader to another section of the text that contains similar or complimentary information.
What is a cross reference?
Identify the rhetoric in the following passage:
“Over the past twenty-five years, I have worked persistently on issues relating to women, children, and families. Over the past two and a half years, I’ve had the opportunity to learn more about the challenges facing women in my own country and around the world.”
—Clinton at the fourth World Conference of the United Nations
What is ethos?
Name and describe the two parts of Step 3.
Step 3: Revising
Part A: Ideas. This involves making sure the main ideas are in logical order, the paragraphs contain enough detail, and the reader can easily grasp the writer's intentions.
Part B: Adding an introduction with a hook and a thesis statement to the beginning, and adding a conclusion to the end.