ABSTRACT
In the first half of this chapter, the authors work out with a few different types of structuring principle: the eventual aim is that the reader starts to invent your own. In the second half of the chapter, they explore the adaptation of culturally significant, non-literary forms—such as advertisements, lists or recipes—to literary texts. A linear structure comprises a series of events or ideas: it is based on the concept of a sequence. Linearity is the simplest form of structure, because it does not demand rearrangement of the material. A linear structure might be a narrative or a logical argument. One type of simultaneous structure consists of two or more vertical columns on the page, so that there is a continual choice about whether to read across or down.
