This is the first of a series of workshops about information structures, which are the framework for two English writing/speaking textbooks: Greene & Hunter 2002 "Critical Thinking" (Asahi) Hunter 2007 "Thinking in English" (Cengage)

1. Lawrie Hunter
CPC GRIPS
https://lawriehunter.com
lawriehunter@gmail.com
Information structures
Argument mapping
Information structure mapping
Concept mapping
Sentence mapping
Mind mapping
Description
Classification
Sequence
Cause-effect
Inference
Pro and con

2. Wealth of tools: the age of
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html

3. Wealth of tools: the age of
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/

4. The links are all lines.
The links are all associations.
Mind mapping

5. What are associations?
Example: we associate with eating.
We associate A with B.
What do you associate with ?
What do you associate with ?

6. Let’s make a mind map!
What do you associate with ?
A baseball reminds me of _______.

7. Get a free account from
http://www.mindmeister.com/
Make maps like this, online.

8. <broad
correspond to
information
structure
elements
Hunter’s ISmaps
have
graphical
links
ISmaps
syntactic
mapping
semantic
mapping
ISmaps
transcend
pragmatic
barriers
ISmaps’
range
pragmatics’
miniworld

9. <big
Description Classification
Degree
comparison
Attribute
comparison
Sequence Cause-effect
Contrast
!
Hunter’s ISmaps*
*information structure maps

10. My friend
Canadian
English
teacher
57
DESCRIPTION
Hunter’s ISmaps*

11. CLASSIFICATION
Cars
sedans
station
wagonscoupes
Hunter’s ISmaps*

12. <
big
old
COMPARISON (relative)
TokyoCalcutta
Hunter’s ISmaps*

13. COMPARISON (by attribute)
red
M’s car K’s car
white
3 years
old
new
Hunter’s ISmaps*

14. SEQUENCE
find a
bank
machine
put in your
bank card
follow the
directions
Hunter’s ISmaps*

15. SEQUENCE structure signals
ThenFirst and
find a
bank
machine
put in your
bank card
follow the
directions
Hunter’s ISmaps*

16. SEQUENCE
slice a
tomato
toast two
slices of
bread
ThenFirst and
tear
some
lettuce
Hunter’s ISmaps*

17. CAUSE-EFFECT
heavy
rain
I...late
for school
bus was
cancelled
Hunter’s ISmaps*

18. Use the ISmap links to map text.
<big
Description Classification
Degree
comparison
Attribute
comparison
Sequence Cause-effect
Contrast
!

19. Power generating systems
General
process:
boil
NH3
Make
steam
Rotate
turbines
Generate
electricity
Boil a
liquid
older type
plants
OTEC
plants
boil
H2O
seawater
heat
fossil or
N-heat
steam
20C
steam
500C
low
power
high
power
zero
energy cost
high
energy cost
hunter systems
!
!
!

20. a Cmap of the text:

21. Thank you for your kind attention,
and thank you in advance
for your feedback and suggestions.
Lawrie Hunter
lawriehunter@gmail.com
http://lawriehunter.com
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http://slideshare.net/rolenzo