7 Organizing Your Information

EXERCISE 1

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EXERCISE 1

Find the website of a company that makes a product used by professionals in your field. (Personal computers are a safe choice.) Locate three discussions on the site that use different organizational patterns. For example, there will probably be a passage devoted to ordering a product from the site (using a chronological pattern), a description of a product (using a partition pattern), and a passage describing why the company’s products are superior to those of its competitors (using a comparison-and-contrast argument). Print a copy of the passages you’ve identified.

For more practice with the concepts covered in Chapters 7 and 9, complete the LearningCurve activity “Organizing and Emphasizing Your Information” under “Additional Resources” in Ch. 7: macmillanhighered.com/launchpad/techcomm11e.