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From content Our next stop is going to be yet organization. So let's think about some questions concerning organization. First question, how is the material organized? Second question, what headings and subheadings? Does the author provide? Third question, what does the organization of the essay tell you about the author's view of the material? And fourth question, what gets stressed or emphasized as a result of the organization? Now, let's think about the kind of structure or support that's undergirding these questions. Why do we ask them? Well, as a writer composes they're a piece, they have to make a series of decisions about organization, they need to determine the order in which they will present their findings, ideas, and arguments and reasons for that order. Now, good writers organize their material purposefully, to make their article clearer, to make their book more persuasive, or to make their findings just more accessible through the order in which they present their material and through their use of things like paragraph breaks, headings and subheadings. They try to help the reader understand or accept their views. As you read a source text, you should think critically about its organization. First, form at least a rough idea of how the writer has organized their ideas. So what are the major sections of the text ask that, and what order are the ideas, arguments or findings presented, so sections order, and to keep track of that, you might want to produce a scratch outline or list that captures the readings organization, so that you can see it as a whole in its entirety. Also use the headings and subheadings that the author provides to get a better understanding of how they view their material, and even how they set priorities among their findings. For example, what ideas arguments or findings get emphasized through the author's selection of headings? How do the headings and subheadings guide you through the piece? Their kinds of signposts? If you think about it, right? Are there any instances in which you think a heading or subheading is misleading, or poorly stated, or trying to exert some kind of rhetorical effect upon you in order to keep your attention in order to keep you the audience? You know, there's a kind of drama to the way things unfold the way texts unfold, just like in the act and scene structure of the stage play. Similarly, in articles, we have an organization that can create tension, uncertainty and even resolution
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