Most people think of sleep as a time when the mind and body can rest after a day of activity. However, doctors know it's much more than that. Sleep is an active critical function. While sleeping, our mind processes and records information, while our body rejuvenates by growing muscle and repairing tissue. Sleep is necessary for a person's health and well being. What text structure is being used, description, compare and contrast, order and sequence, problem and solution and cause and effect.

compare and contrast.

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The passage starts with a statement backed by popular opinion, "Most people think of sleep as a time when the mind and body can rest after a day of activity." After this it throws a curve ball giving a statement backed by fact, saying, "doctors know much more than that." The passage proceeds to explain what doctors know, which is comparing and contrasting, popular belief and fact.

This is pretty much the whole structure of this informational passage.  

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”

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