Problem+Solution

**Problem and Solution **
Every day in The Times there are articles that identify a problem of some kind and report on an innovative solution. In fact, one whole Times blog, called [|__Fixes_] , is entirely devoted to reporting on solutions to social problems and why they work.

Of course we have a basic [|graphic organizer]  for this text type as well — to use as is, or as a jumping-off point for your own version. Signal Words and Phrases
 * problem
 * solution
 * because
 * cause
 * since
 * as a result
 * in order to
 * so that

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Times Print Examples <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666699; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Monks Embrace Web to Reach Recruits] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“The Benedictine monks at the Portsmouth Abbey in Portsmouth, R.I., have a problem. They are aging — five are octogenarians and the youngest will be 50 on his next birthday — and their numbers have fallen to 12, from a peak of about 24 in 1969.” Read about how these monks have taken to the Internet to solve it.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666699; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|A Hard Turn: Better Health on the Highway] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How can the trucking industry encourage drivers to exercise and eat right on the road?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666699; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Fixes | The Power of Positive Coaching] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“…today’s youth coaches often struggle to provide sound, evidence-based, and age-appropriate guidance to players.” Fixes describes one solution.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666699; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Fixes | An Electronic Eye on Hospital Hand-Washing] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Hospitals do impossible things like heart surgery on a fetus, but they are apparently stymied by the task of getting health care workers to wash their hands.” What can they do to change that culture?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Times Multimedia Examples <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666699; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Interactive | Lunch Line Redesign] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666699; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Slide Show | 10 Days in a Carry-On] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666699; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Interactive | The 2010 Year in Ideas]

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/compare-contrast-cause-effect-problem-solution-common-text-types-in-the-times/?smid=pl-share__]