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

 

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These pages are from various handouts and excersises that I've collected from school over the years - I did not write them myself. If anyone ever finds the original teachers who wrote these (probably at some point in the 70s or early 80s), please let me know so I can credit them! If you wish to copy, print, link to or use these pages in any way, you do not need to ask me for permission.