Patterns of Development

• This helps us sort out information and shape paragraphs or essays.

  Patterns of Development
• Patterns of Development:

  1. Narration
  2. Description
  3. Definition
  4. Exemplification
  5. Classification
  6. Comparison
  7. Cause and Effect / Causal Analysis
  8. Problem-Solution
  9. Persuasion
• This means to tell a story about people, places, events, dates, etc.

  Mostly narratives simply tell what happened in the story or the sequence of events.

  Narration
• Elements of a Narrative Paragraph:

  > Setting

  > Characters

  > Plot

  > Point of View
• This refers to time, place or location, atmosphere and mood of the story.

  Characters
• This refers to the series of events that has five parts.

  Plot
• Parts of a plot:

  > Exposition

  > Rising Action

  > Climax

  > Falling Action

  > Denouement
• This is the beginning of the story where the characters and setting are introduced.

  Exposition
• When the conflict is exposed

  Rising Action
• the highest point of interest and the turning point of the story.•

  Climax
• the conflicts begin to be resolved predictable ending.

  Falling action
• refers to the final resolution of the story.

  Denouement
• refers to the perspective of the writer in narrating the story.

  Point of View
• means to tell what something is like

  Description
• A good description will revolve around a "dominant impression"
• Definition means to explain what something is.
• Many writing assignments in various disciplines require the use of definition and exemplification.
• Exemplification is the process of extending an example or a series of detailed examples.
• Classification means to sort items to group those with similar characteristics and to distinguish them from those with different characteristics.
• Comparison means to identify how two "different" items are similar. Contrast means to identify how two "similar" items are different.
• Cause and Effect / Causal analysis means to find the reasons that produced a certain result or to identify the results produced by a certain phenomenon.
• In a cause-and-effect paragraph, there exists a causal relationship.
• A cause is what makes a particular thing happen. An effect is what results from a particular situation, activity, or behavior.
• Following are useful transitional expressions used to show causal relationship.
• Problem-solution means to start by identifying a problem and then proposes at least two or more solutions.
• Introduction describes the problem.
• Body describes solution.
• Conclusion is a call to action; convince reader he/she needs to act.
• Persuasion means organizing ideas to show how a set of evidence leads to a logical conclusion or argument.
• Persuasive Writing intends to convince readers to believe in an idea oropinion and to do an action.