1. What does it mean to organize the concepts for a topic? creating a piece for the audience to read

finding a way to group the information

presenting an idea or new information

reading an audience and deciding on a strategy

2. What is the topic of an informational writing piece?

the way you group information

the formal meanings of words

information and how it is organized

the subject or focus of your writing

3. For each organizational strategy you choose, you must make sure that it

has headings, charts, and tables.

makes sense for your audience.

is something that you are interested in.

is organized into a common group or category.

4.Doron has done his research and has selected the organizational strategy of definition. He has also brainstormed his topic of the Mandarin language to activate his overall thoughts. What is Doron’s next step in writing his informational article?

begin to work on his body paragraphs

decide on a good title

make an outline

write his introduction

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion