PATTERNS OF IDEA DEVELOPMENT

These are writer’s strategies to organize ideas in writing.

These include a variety of logical ways to arrange an entire text or individual paragraphs depending on one’s purpose and audience.

• Signal Words

• Patterns in Writing

• Patterns in Idea Development

• Cohesive Devices

This pattern of idea development details why something happens, what causes it, what are the effects and how it is related to something else.

• Cause and Effect

• Problem - Solution

• Narrative

• Comparison and Contrast

This pattern of idea development tells how something is like other things or how something is different from other things.

• Cause and Effect

• Problem - Solution

• Narrative

• Comparison and Contrast

This pattern of idea development describes what, when, and where something happened.

• Cause and Effect

• Problem - Solution

• Narrative

• Comparison and Contrast

This pattern of idea development shows how an existing problem came to be, or how it might be solved, by following a clear series of steps.

• Cause and Effect

• Problem - Solution

• Narrative

• Comparison and Contrast

What Pattern of Idea Development can be used for the topic: "Global Warming vs. Climate Change"

• Cause and Effect

• Problem - Solution

• Narrative

• Comparison and Contrast

What Pattern of Idea Development can be used for the topic: "What can we do to stop Global Warming?"

• Cause and Effect

• Problem - Solution

• Narrative

• Comparison and Contrast

What Pattern of Idea Development can be used for the topic: "Overpopulation and Global Warming"

• Cause and Effect

• Problem - Solution

• Narrative

• Comparison and Contrast

What Pattern of Idea Development can be used for the topic: "Global Warming - Back to the Future"

• Cause and Effect

• Problem - Solution

• Narrative

• Comparison and Contrast

What Pattern of Idea Development can be used for the topic: "Let us fight for the future! #LettheEarthBreathe"

• Cause and Effect

• Problem - Solution

• Narrative

• Comparison and Contrast