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• Patterns of Development


  Refers how information is logically organized in a passage to help reader follow the text and understand it better
• Definition


  Explain ideas and clarify concepts by answering the question what does it mean
• Exemplification


  Presents general statements and provides specific and concrete examples
• Description


  Provides information describing a scene, person, or object using sensory spatial pattern
• Chronology or Procedure


  Organizes ideas or events according to time, can be either in the form of narration or a process
• Comparison-Contrast


  Describes how two or more entities be similar or different, can be separately or side by side
• Listing


  Organizes ideas through enumeration
• Cause and Effect


  Includes several reasons why an event occurred or several effects that resulted from a cause or multiple causes
• Problem-Solution


  Identifies a problem, provides solutions with possible results
• Classification-Division


  Organizes ideas into categories or divisions based on criteria and standards
• Persuasion


  Tries to convince readers to take certain opinion or perform certain action
• Paragraph


  Group of interrelated sentences that talk about one main idea
• Essay


  Group of paragraphs that talk about one central idea
• Topic Sentence


  Main idea of the paragraph
• Body (Supporting Details)


  Sentences that clarify and prove the main idea
• Closing Sentence


  Concludes the details that have been presented
• Introduction


  A. Lead or attention Getter - First statement which aims to book the readers

  B. Transitional Statement - Sentence which links the lead to thesis statement. Provides a background on the topic.

  C. Thesis Statement - States main idea or argument of the essay.
• Body


  Meat of the essay. Discusses the thesis statement in detail through paragraph.
• Conclusion


  Restatement of the thesis statement, Transitional Statement - Talks about recommendation. Benefits, or Ideas or purpose, Closing Statement - Use to wrap the essay. One strategy to link it to the attention getter in the introduction.
• Unity


  It is achieved when a composition contains one focused idea
• Coherence and Cohesion


  Ideas are logically, clearly, and smoothly linked to one another
• Coherence


  Organization and connection of Ideas
• Cohesion


  Connection of ideas at the sentence level
• Organizing


  Logically and accurately achieved
• Physical Format


  How the text physically appears
• Signal Word


  Cue in ordering concepts and events
• Structure


  Complete framework or the text
• Language Used


  Appropriateness of word or vocabulary usage
• Informal


  Be direct and simple
• Formal


  Use an unbiased language
• Mechanics


  Technical aspect of writing and characterized. To spell, abbreviate, punctuate, and capitalize