College Composition / Unit 29 CMP 0715 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Structure as a Choice
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The idea
How a text is put together, where it starts and ends and how it sequences ideas, is a rhetorical choice to analyze.
In practice
Ask why the author starts here and ends there, why information comes in this order, and what connects the text from start to finish.
Where people slip
Every text has some principle of organization; finding it often reveals the writer's strategy.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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