Language Across Disciplines
Main Informational Text Structure
Main Informational Text Structure
100

What discipline commonly uses the word - gothic, mood, balance, etc.?

Literature and the Arts

100

It gives concrete details about appearance, characteristics, and actions.

Description

100

A text structure or pattern of organization where the similarities and differences of two or more things are explored

Compare and contrast

200

Monarchy, equity, migration, and personality are common language in what discipline?

Social Science

200

This presents reasons why a situation is obtained.

Cause and effect text

200

This text structure is an organizational strategy whereby authors arrange groups of persons, places, things, or abstract ideas according to a common.

Classification

300

Bio, geo, power, and pressure are examples of language in what discipline?

Natural Science


300

A text structure that shows the development of a dilemma and the remedy to the problem.

Problem and solution

300

It is a listing, as in a list of parts, of characteristics, of examples etc. It is the common text structure for Social Science Texts and Literature and the Arts.

Enumeration

400

Remit, collateral, stocks are commonly language used in ______.

Business

400

It is the method of identifying a given term and making its meaning clear.

Definition

400

A chronological narration of a historical period, a sequential description of a process or a procedure

Recount of a sequence

500

Notations and formulas are common language in what discipline?

Mathematics

500

Text structure used to serve the purpose of arguing a point/position or interpretation which may be arranged deductively or inductively.

Thesis-evidence

500

Some words that signal this text include assert, prove, allege, and the like.

Thesis-evidence