What you’ll learn to do: identify logic and structure in texts

Human beings love order, and we will try to impose order in almost every situation.  That includes reading.  Clearly, most reading relies on understanding words in the order they appear in a sentence.  Even beyond that, we anticipate patterns and shapes that particular types of writing will take, and we build expectations based on the first few sentences that we read.

This section will help you understand what you can learn from a piece of reading based on the shape it takes, in addition to what the words themselves convey.