Academic skills. Patterns of organisation + text spidergrams (main idea, major supporting ideas, minor supporting ideas)

1. Patterns of Organization
Created by:
Aida Rodomanchenko

2. Patterns of Organization
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the List of Items Pattern
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the Time Order Pattern
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the Illustrative Pattern
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the Comparison and/or Contrast Pattern
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the Cause and Effect Pattern
Aida Rodomanchenko (aka BritishWorld)

3. 1 Globalisation has been a force for change in so many ways for
so many people. 2 It has given them access to information and
improved their lives, and has given global mobility to skilled
workers. 3 Fair trade has the ability to lift people out of poverty.
4 It creates a level playing field and allows countries across the
world to share their best products, goods and services. 5 Many
workers in developing countries now have employment because
of globalisation. 6 Globalisation benefits all nations by increasing
competitiveness and efficiency.
Aida Rodomanchenko (aka BritishWorld)

4. 1 Globalisation has been a force for change in so many ways for
so many people. 2 It has given them access to information and
improved their lives, and has given global mobility to skilled
workers. 3 Fair trade has the ability to lift people out of poverty.
4 It creates a level playing field and allows countries across the
world to share their best products, goods and services. 5 Many
workers in developing countries now have employment because
of globalisation. 6 Globalisation benefits all nations by increasing
competitiveness and efficiency.
Aida Rodomanchenko (aka BritishWorld)

5. 1 Globalisation has been a force for change in so many ways for
so many people. 2 It has given them access to information and
improved their lives, and has given global mobility to skilled
workers. 3 Fair trade has the ability to lift people out of poverty.
4 It creates a level playing field and allows countries across the
world to share their best products, goods and services. 5 Many
workers in developing countries now have employment because
of globalisation. 6 Globalisation benefits all nations by increasing
competitiveness and efficiency.
List of Items
Aida Rodomanchenko (aka BritishWorld)

6. Globalisation benefits everyone, including people in developing
countries. It allows me personally to work from home in the UK
with clients and colleagues all over the world. Globalisation isn’t
just benefiting big corporations. It also benefits small businesses
like my own. Technology and cheap transport mean I can
compete with large corporations who used to have a monopoly
on faraway markets.
1
2
3
4
5
6
Aida Rodomanchenko (aka BritishWorld)

7. Globalisation benefits everyone, including people in developing
countries. It allows me personally to work from home in the UK
with clients and colleagues all over the world. Globalisation isn’t
just benefiting big corporations. It also benefits small businesses
like my own. Technology and cheap transport mean I can
compete with large corporations who used to have a monopoly
on faraway markets.
1
2
3
4
5
6
Aida Rodomanchenko (aka BritishWorld)

8. Globalisation benefits everyone, including people in developing
countries. It allows me personally to work from home in the UK
with clients and colleagues all over the world. Globalisation isn’t
just benefiting big corporations. It also benefits small businesses
like my own. Technology and cheap transport mean I can
compete with large corporations who used to have a monopoly
on faraway markets.
1
2
3
4
5
6
Illustrative
Aida Rodomanchenko (aka BritishWorld)

9. 1
Globalization is definitely about progress. 2It leads to better
products, which are more cost effective to produce and therefore
cheaper for everyone. 3Globalisation also connects people by
means of communication and offers them new opportunities for
travel, work and education. 4It means a faster rate of
development for the whole world. 5Many countries have benefited
from investment as a result of globalisation.
Aida Rodomanchenko (aka BritishWorld)

10. 1
Globalization is definitely about progress. 2It leads to better
products, which are more cost effective to produce and therefore
cheaper for everyone. 3Globalisation also connects people by
means of communication and offers them new opportunities for
travel, work and education. 4It means a faster rate of
development for the whole world. 5Many countries have benefited
from investment as a result of globalisation.
Aida Rodomanchenko (aka BritishWorld)

11. 1
Globalization is definitely about progress. 2It leads to better
products, which are more cost effective to produce and therefore
cheaper for everyone. 3Globalisation also connects people by
means of communication and offers them new opportunities for
travel, work and education. 4It means a faster rate of
development for the whole world. 5Many countries have benefited
from investment as a result of globalisation.
Cause and effect
Aida Rodomanchenko (aka BritishWorld)

12. Globalisation’s only good for those who are already
economically strong. 2 It’s big multinational companies who really
benefit, 3 and it really worries me that sometimes they seem to
have more power and influence over our lives than elected
governments. 4 Some of them are actually richer than whole
countries, which must be a bad thing.
1
Aida Rodomanchenko (aka BritishWorld)

13. Globalisation’s only good for those who are already
economically strong. 2 It’s big multinational companies who really
benefit, 3 and it really worries me that sometimes they seem to
have more power and influence over our lives than elected
governments. 4 Some of them are actually richer than whole
countries, which must be a bad thing.
1
Aida Rodomanchenko (aka BritishWorld)

14. Globalisation’s only good for those who are already
economically strong. 2 It’s big multinational companies who really
benefit, 3 and it really worries me that sometimes they seem to
have more power and influence over our lives than elected
governments. 4 Some of them are actually richer than whole
countries, which must be a bad thing.
1
Illustrative
Aida Rodomanchenko (aka BritishWorld)

15. Globalisation ‘s definitely made the world smaller, 2 but I don’t
think it’s a fairer place. 3 I think it has benefits for developed world
consumers, 4 but not for workers in poor countries. 5 It often
means things like child labour and other abuses of human rights.
6 There are some benefits 7 but they are not evenly distributed. 8
It’s contributed to the gap between the rich and the poor. 9
Globalisation exploits the poor and has no respect for local
cultures.
1
Aida Rodomanchenko (aka BritishWorld)

16. Aida Rodomanchenko (aka BritishWorld)

17. Contrast:
1,3,6 Vs 2,4-5,7
Cause and effect:
Cause: 2-7
Effect: 7,8
Aida Rodomanchenko (aka BritishWorld)