IXL | Organize information by topic | 11th grade language arts

A group is creating a website about the Industrial Revolution. Read the piece of information in each row, then select the section where it fits best.

	Sections
	Defining the Industrial Revolution	Inventions	Significance
The Industrial Revolution occurred during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Just imagine a world without the Industrial Revolution: no refrigeration, no electricity, no mass transportation, no Internet. It would be a world unrecognizable to most of us. –Professor Aimee Bowden
James Hargreaves's so-called "spinning jenny" allowed for multiple spools of threads to be created at the same time.

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A student is writing a report on Pripyat, Ukraine, a city near an infamous nuclear disaster. Read the piece of information in each row, then select the section where it fits best.

	Sections
	Past	Present	Future
In the aftermath of the 1986 meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, radioactive material penetrated the skies of Pripyat.
Experts predict that it will be several centuries until the town can be safely inhabited again.
Pripyat is a ghost town: the post office still contains unmailed letters, and feral animals wander through abandoned buildings.

key idea

Well-organized writing is easier for the reader to understand. Part of what makes for well-organized writing is having a clear and consistent focus for each section, from an individual paragraph to an entire chapter.

Throughout the writing process—whether you are brainstorming, drafting, or revising—think carefully about which sections are needed to develop your topic. When you want to incorporate a piece of information, such as an idea, quote, or fact, consider whether it is relevant to your topic and which section it relates to most closely.

Before becoming a judge, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as the chief litigator for the ACLU's Women's Rights Project.

In an essay about the ACLU, this information would fit better in a section about the ACLU's history than in a section about the ACLU's purpose.

solution

The first piece of information describes what happened in the immediate aftermath of the explosion, so it fits best in the Past section.

In the aftermath of the 1986 meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, radioactive material penetrated the skies of Pripyat.

The second piece of information gives a prediction about the town's future habitability, so it fits best in the Future section.

Experts predict that it will be several centuries until the town can be safely inhabited again.

The third piece of information describes what the town is like today, so it fits best in the Present section.

Pripyat is a ghost town: the post office still contains unmailed letters, and feral animals wander through abandoned buildings.

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