General Tips

I. Aims (purpose)

Literary
Persuasive
Referential (Informative)
Expressive

II. Modes (Methods of development)

Narration
Description
Classification (Explanation)
Evaluation

III. Plan of organization (Ways to develop paragraphs)

Specific details
Facts and figures
Examples
Incidents
Definitions
Compare and contrast
Cause and effect
Induction - deduction
Analogy

IV. Order of Details

Chronological
Spatial
General to specific or vice versa
Least important to most important or vice versa