Lists & hierarchies

Lesson overview

Introduction
UNIVERSAL
Middle years and up
lists
hierarchies
organising facts
finding relationships
presenting information
gathering details
flat lists
hierarchical lists
ordered lists
unordered lists
vertical lists
horizontal lists
matrices
deception
lists in fiction
report basics
research
categorisation
informational writing
cataloguing
sequencing facts
grouping facts
believability
defining relationships
subcategorisation
sequential lists
ranking
procedures
subjectivity
objectivity
timelines
inline lists
list punctuation
prose lists
fuzzy lists
descriptive lists
conversational lists
tables
Much of writing is about gathering and organising details, and the foundational way to do that is through a list. This lesson explores lists in all their surprising richness. We look at flat lists vs lists with hierarchies. Ordered and unordered. Vertical, horizontal, and matrix. Even fictional and deceptive lists. And we analyse a range of curious lists from surprising sources, before ending with a checkpoint list based on a piece of Wimmelbild art to bring it all together.
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