1. Adult Learning Academy
Integrated Reading and Writing
Text Features
Academic thought Patterns

2. Examples of Text Features
Title
Table of contents
Headings or subtitles
Sidebars
Pictures and captions; Inset photos
Labeled diagrams, cutaways, and cross sections
Charts and graphs
Glossary
Index

3. Common Academic Thought Patterns
Narrative
Illustration
Definition
Cause-Effect
Compare-Contrast
Classification
Any text, whether one paragraph or multiple paragraphs, may use a variety of patterns .
Structure:
Multi-paragraph:
- Introduction
Thesis = Main Idea
- Body
- Conclusion
Paragraph:
- Topic sentence =
Main Idea
- Concluding sentence

4. Graphics, Data Structures
We should also be able to identify and use:
Lists
Items in a list can be rearranged and the information will not change its meaning
Sequences /Processes
Timelines
How-to Instructions
Graphics, Data Structures
Typical Ways to Organize Information in the Medical Field

5. Try this for defining fiction, non-fiction, narrative, and expository:
Expository
Text structure is organized by:
- Main Ideas
- Major Supporting Details
- Minor Supporting Details

6. Narrative Elements Characters Settings Themes
Central Problem, or Conflict
Sequential presentation of events (usually chronological)
Resolution to the Conflict
Narrative
Structure:
Beginning
Middle
End

7. A Medical Narrative http://issuu.com/dtomazin/docs/walrath?mode=window
(with a variety of identifiable patterns and features)
From a collection of graphic stories by fourth-year medical students at Penn State College of Medicine.

8. Let’s identify a few patterns and their
characteristics within our narrative:
Definitely a narrative conflict – she’s wondering, can I help here? Maybe even, Do I want to get involved?

9. The causes are divided into categories =
Cause and effect !
The causes are divided into categories =
classification !
The items in the categories are listed.

10. A mini-medical narrative, right?
Will it come to this process??
Sequence is crucial here.

11. Narrative
Resolution

12. What will we do with the ability to identify and write with these
patterns?
Integrate information in a text with our own knowledge
Group related ideas
Quote, paraphrase, and summarize important information
Interpret graphics, charts, tables
Synthesize information
Apply information in a text to real-world situations
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