1. © 2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. College Writing Skills, 6E and College Writing Skills with Readings, 6E John Langan Division and Classification Chapter Fifteen Division and Classification

2. Chapter 15 College Writing Skills/ College Writing Skills with Readings, 6E © 2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Division and Classification organizing our environment We spend a good deal of time organizing our environment in order to make sense of it and deal with it more efficiently.

3. Chapter 15 College Writing Skills/ College Writing Skills with Readings, 6E © 2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Division and Classification For example : We can divide a bag of groceries into... Food Non-food

4. Chapter 15 College Writing Skills/ College Writing Skills with Readings, 6E © 2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Division and Classification...or we can divide it into... Items for the refrigerator Items for the kitchen cabinets

5. Chapter 15 College Writing Skills/ College Writing Skills with Readings, 6E © 2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Division and Classification EdibilityStorage Location principlesclassification division “ Edibility ” and “ Storage Location ” would be the principles of classification and division in the preceding examples.

6. Chapter 15 College Writing Skills/ College Writing Skills with Readings, 6E © 2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Division and Classification classify divide subject In writing, we classify and divide a subject in order to explain it to readers.

7. Chapter 15 College Writing Skills/ College Writing Skills with Readings, 6E © 2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Division and Classification For example: classifying We explain advertising strategies by classifying television commercials for beer into their appeal to our desires for... amusement friendship wealth

8. Chapter 15 College Writing Skills/ College Writing Skills with Readings, 6E © 2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Division and Classification different classifying women... We could explain different strategies by classifying these same commercials into, say, their representation of women... as equals as objects as objects of fun