PATTERNS

• Narration: narrative paragraphs are based on personal experience or on knowledge gained from reading or observation, chronological order

  
• Description: This is characterized by using more adjective or vivid

  sensory description, building a mental picture of the idea or the topic by describing how it sounds, smells, tastes, feels/looks.

  
• Process: This is usually used to explain a process on how to do

  something. It strictly uses transitional devices of enumeration and time since the purpose of this pattern of development is to help your readers

  understand the steps in a process or procedure or to give instructions.

  
• Exemplification: This uses series of examples to support the topic

  sentence. This means that to further explain the topic, the use of examples must be provided.

  
• Comparison/Contrast: This demonstrates comparing/contrasting or

  examines how given subjects are either similar or different.

  
• Definition: This aims to give a complete working definition of a

  term, concept or idea. One of the main features of this pattern is that it tells both the term is and what it is not.

  
• Classification: This presents the topic and classifies it into component parts, types, kinds or categories. It distinguishes its parts by presenting the characteristics of each.

  
• Cause and Effect: This explains the reasons why something happened

  or explains the effects of something.