Ideas in this flowchart

• Knowledge hierarchy
• Organizes information
• Begins with broad subjects
• Moves toward increasingly specific ideas
• Creates levels of specificity
• A publication can contain major divisions
• Major divisions organize broad content
• Smaller divisions organize narrower content
• Individual knowledge units express specific ideas
• These divisions form a structure
• The structure helps readers
• Readers understand the organization
• Readers identify where an idea belongs
• An idea belongs within a larger subject
• The hierarchy shows the relationship between an idea and its larger subject