1.1 Patterns of Development

• Exemplification in writing provides examples and illustrations to further clarify or explain the concept or subject matter.
• Narration in writing describes what, when and where something happened; involves action.
• Narrative writing can be factual or fictional.
• The purpose of narration is to tell stories.
• Narration is the art of storytelling.
• Cause and effect are important elements of a text that help the reader to follow a writer's line of thought, regardless of whether that text is fiction or nonfiction.
• Process analysis essays explain how to do something, how something works, or both.
• Cause is the why something happened, and effect is the what happened.
• Process essays may be divided into two categories: informative and directive.
• An informational process analysis essay describes a topic to the reader, such as how an aircraft engine functions.
• A directive process analysis gives instructions on how to accomplish a certain goal, such as how to prepare the best waffles.
• Directive Process Analysis involves breaking down the task into simple, well-defined phases that generally maintain a temporal sequence and have a clear objective.
• In a process analysis essay, the writer is required to present the steps of the process in sequential order, from first to last.
• All concepts or terms that might appear uncommon in a process analysis essay are defined.
• The organization of a process analysis essay typically follows a chronological sequence.
• A process essay may be written in three easy steps: discussion of the process, thesis statement, and organization.
• A process analysis essay is more engaging when it is thoroughly inspected point by point to identify potential gaps, such as missing ingredients from a recipe.
• Cause and effect can be used in a process analysis essay to explain how something works or how to do something.
• The process analysis essay opens with a discussion of the process and a thesis statement that states the outcome of the process.
• Process analysis essays remain more engaging when transitional terms like therefore, subsequently, afterward, etc are used.
• A compare and contrast essay analyzes two subjects by comparing them, contrasting them, or doing both.