Class Activity on Organizing Information

Garett Hopper
Lindsey Davis
Susan Brashear

This report presents observations, findings, and recommendations regarding the performance of buildings affected by the September 11 attacks on the WTC towers in New York City. This report also describes the structural and fire protection features of the affected buildings and their performance in response to the terrorist attacks. Due to the unprecedented nature, magnitude, and visibility of the terrorist attacks, this event is among the most well-documented in the media, particularly in terms of photographic images, lives affected, and the immediate responses and ensuing sequence of events. An understanding of these events must include the performance of the buildings under extreme conditions beyond building code requirements. This includes determining the probable causes of collapse and identifying lessons to be learned. Recommendations are presented for more detailed engineering studies, to complete the assessments and to produce improved guidance for building design and performance evaluation tools. Paragraph 2 from the reading. We believe that this showed the general to specific pattern in organizing information.

The pictures found in the passage shows spatial patterns in organizing your information. The pictures show exact location of the World Trade Towers in New York and the aircraft flight routes to the Towers as well.

Figure 1-8 shows the chronological pattern in organizing information by listing the times these events occurred. Also, table 1.1 shows a chronological pattern as well.