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It is a pattern of development that is used to tell a story or focus on a set of related events.
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Narration
Peruasion
This pattern of development take notes of events that happened in the story and how each scene is described through the use of vivid details.
Problem-Solution
Cause and Effect
Definition
Narration
This pattern of development arranges event details logically in time order, and uses appropriate transitional devices such as first, lastly, consequently, etc.
Narration
Description
Definition
Persuasion
This is a pattern of development of a text which presents the writer's dominant impression about a person, place, thing, or event as main idea.
Narration
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Cause and Effect
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The main idea of this pattern of development is supported by vivid details that appeal to the readers' senses - hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch.
Problem-solution
Comparison and Contrast
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Narration
This pattern of development contains transition words and phrases that signal spatial order such as alongside, behind, beneath, beyond down, etc.
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Definition
Description
Persuasion
This pattern of development explains not just what something means, but also what something does, what something is used for, what something looks like, etc.
Narration
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Persuasion
This pattern of development helps in distinguishing something from any other thing in the world.
Compare and Contrast
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Descriptive
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This pattern of development also provides humorous meaning of a popular term to enlighten people about a controversy.
Persuasion
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Compare and Contrast
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This pattern of development is the method by which one divides things into groups, classes, or categories.
Exemplification/Classification
Compare and Contrast
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Definition
This pattern of development is a method of providing examples and illustrations in order to clarify or explain concept or subject matter.
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Description
Exemplification/Classification
Problem-solution
This pattern of development pays attention to the categories which are used to divide the general idea into specific characteristics of subgroups, including examples.
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Compare and Contrast
Persuasion
Exemplification/Classification
This pattern of development helps organise ideas about two things of the same kind which can be confusing.
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Compare and Contrast
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Exemplification/Classification
This pattern of development choose to comparable subjects and compare and contrast them based on a set of elements they have in common.
Compare and Contrast
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Persuasion
Exemplification/Classification
This pattern of development basically explains the reason why an event or phenomenon occurred and/or what its results could be.
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Narration
Cause and Effect
This pattern of development provides an answer to an existing problem that effects a number of people.
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Compare and Contrast
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Description
This pattern of development is essential to explain what the problem is and why is it considered a problem before proposing logically sound and practical solutions to address it.
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Persuasion
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Exemplification/Classification
This pattern of development choose a controversial or debatable topic and to formulate one's opinion about it which are well supported by facts and not by another opinion.
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Narration
Persuasion
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This pattern of development requires the writer to be very conscious of the arguments he or she is presenting. The argument should be logical and free of fallacies.
Compare and Contrast
Persuasion
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Problem-solution
This pattern of development needs pieces of evidence such as statistical data, testimonies, results of a case study or other research which can use to support the writer's opinion.
Persuasion
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Compare and Contrast
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