Using grammar in writing

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 498.

Task 4

Task 3

Task 2

Sometimes it is important to understand from a person's title what his or her role in the company is. Look at the diagrams and at the list of job titles under each one. One shows the management structure of a British company, the other shows the management structure of an American company.

In English, when we classify data and ideas, we divide all the information into categories. We do this in a logical way, but the logical ordering we choose depends on our purpose in making the classification. Some types of logical ordering are: time order (oldest to newest); general to particular hierarchy; and scale (examples of scales are importance (most important to least important), size (largest to smallest), familiarity (best-known to least-known).

What logical ordering is used here?

Ms Alice Smith

414 Oldfield Street

Wilmington-on-Sea

Blahshire

England

Choose a set of data about which you know quite a lot and classify these data according to a classification basis of your choice. Display the data in a logical diagram. Show your diagram to a partner and ask her or him to identify the classification basis you used.

You should have noticed in this unit so far that when we classify, we arrange members of a group, rather than parts relative to a whole as we did in Unit 1. The tables below show some of the most common language used in sentences which have classification as their purpose.

types : A, B and С.

There are kinds . These are A, B and С.

Y classes of X are A, B and С.

The Categories

In a classification essay, your task is threefold: (1) to classify or arrange ideas and information on a particular subject in a logical way, whether the subject is contemporary music, college males or females, or the causes of the First World War; (2) to describe the classes or divisions within the subject area; and (3) to give your overall opinion of the subject area.

The skills you learn will help you not only in many college essays, but also in the sort of practical writing required in many jobs. For example, some day you may be required to make a written report evaluating departments within an organi­zation or divisions within a department.