Non-Fiction
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- CHRONOLOGICAL
- An organizational structure of text in which events are placed in the order they occur in time.
- PREFIX
- An affix attached before a base word or root.
- COMPARE/CONTRAST
- An organizational structure of text in which a description of similarities and differences among two or more things occurs.
- PLAGIARISM
- To steal and pass off the ideas or words of another as one's own.
- MAIN IDEA
- The central thought.
- PROBLEM SOLUTION
- An organizational structure of text that is similar to cause and effect except that the outcomes are a result or solution of a perceived need or problem.
- TEXT FEATURES
- "Organizers or written materials such as indexes, prefaces, appendices, footnotes, illustrations or photographs"
- SEQUENCING
- "The arrangement in which things follow in a logical order or a pattern, a following of one thing after another in time."
- SUFFIX
- "An affix attached to the end of a base, root or stem that changes the meaning."
- EVIDENCE
- Anything that is used to determine or demonstrate the truth.
- TEXT/ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
- An author's method of organizing a text.
- CAUSE AND EFFECT
- An organizational structure of text in which there is a description of events and their causes or consequences.