This document discusses graphic representations for organizing ideas when reading texts. It explains that graphs can visually show the main parts of a text and relationships between ideas to help readers better understand and interpret the information. The document also outlines different types of paragraphs that can be identified through this technique, including definition, description, comparison, cause and effect, and narration paragraphs. It provides examples of each type of paragraph and how identifying their rhetorical function is the starting point for understanding important aspects of a text.
2. GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION / KIND OF PARAGRAPHS
The graphic representation or graphic organization is a useful tool for organizing ideas before, during
and after reading, for being visual representations. The graphs quickly show the main parts of a text and its
relationships, so the reader can understand and interpret the text in a better way. This activity as a reading
comprehension technique allows:
1. Identify the topic of the text (central idea)
2. Carry the sequence of ideas that appear as secondary ideas that support the main idea.
3. Understand information in an organized way
4. Identify the type of paragraph, or the rhetorical function of the paragraph.
So how can we achieve these competencies?
First, it is necessary to know that there are different types of paragraphs, and that their identification is the
starting point to identify the important aspects of it. Among them we have:
Kinds of paragraphs
DEFINITION: are those texts where the definition of the topic prevails, or aspects related to the topic.
1. Definition
-DESCRIPTION: are those where the topic is described with its most important elements.
2. Description
TOPIC
TOPIC
3. -COMPARISON: in a text there must always be a topic, here you can compare aspects related to the
topic; Or two topics at the same level of importance that are compared.
3. Comparison
-CAUSE - EFFECT: here arise causes and consequences that predominate as fundamental aspects of
the text. In this sense, there can be a cause that generates an effect, several that generate several effects,
one that generates several effects or several causes that generate a single effect.
4. Cause and effect
-NARRATION: in this type of text prevails the narrative sense of the text, it is evident the sequence of
activities according to the proposed event.
5. Narration
topic
subtopic
subtopic
TOPIC
CAUSE
EFFECT
EFFECT
EFFECT
Topic
EVENT
EVENT
EVENT
4. 1 SAMPLE ESSAY ABOUT YOUR ACADEMIC FIELD
Conflict within an organization is not always viewed as undesirable. In fact various managers have
widely divergent ideas on the value that conflict can have.
According to a traditional view of conflict, conflict is harmful to an organization. Managers with this
traditional view of conflict see it as their role in an organization to rid the organization of any possible sources
of conflict.
The interactionist view of conflict, on the other hand, holds that conflict can serve an important function in
an organization by reducing complacency among workers and causing positive changes to occur. Managers who
hold an interactionist view of conflict may actually take steps to stimulate conflict within the organization.
Kinds of paragraphs: COMPARATIVE
CONFLICT WINTHIN AN ORGANIZATION
traditional view interactionist view
Harmful Important function in an organization (positive)
It is not always view
as undesirable