Toefl exam Essentials

TOEFL EXAM ESSENTIALS
RECOGNIZING STRUCTURAL PATTERNS
Just as an architect needs a blueprint when designing a building,
writers must have a plan that organizes their information and ideas.
Learning organizational strategies will help you identify common
patterns so that you can guess at what is coming ahead.
Recognizing structural techniques also helps you answer two
types of questions on the TOEFL exam: supporting-detail ques-
tions (you will be able to locate specific information in a passage)
and sentence-insertion questions (you will know where best to
place new information in a passage).
The four most common organizational patterns that writers
use are: