What are the three steps in comparing and contrasting?
What do I want to compare? What characteristics do I want to compare? How are they alike and different?
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What are the steps in classifying?
What do I want to classify? What things are alike that I can put in a group. What other groups can I make? Does everything fit into a group. Would it be better to split up groups differently?
300
What are the steps for creating metaphors?
What is important here? How can I say the same thing in a more general way? What else has the same general pattern.
400
What are the steps for rule-based categorizing?
Take out material not important for your understanding. Take out words that repeat information. Replace a list with a word that replaces that list. Find a topic sentence.
500
Name three types of organizers, from the nonlinguistic representations models.
concept pattern, generalization, episode, cause-effect, time sequence, descriptive.