In the first course, we started the practice of
beginning each week with a quick review of the material
from the previous week, like television shows often do at the start of a new episode. You can now think of this
technique in terms of the main writing principle
we learned last week. Try to move from old
information to new information. To avoid confusing people, orient them with
something familiar. With that in mind, here are two concepts that I hope
you'll find familiar. The first is the Venn
Diagram approach to writing that we learned about
in the reading. The second is the
idea that as writers, we're architects of information. So take a couple of minutes
to write down what you remember about
those two concepts. Then I will go over
both of them and add a few more details
that will set us up to learn about this week's
main writing principle: putting corresponding ideas
in corresponding forms.