Methods of Development

Cause and Effect method of development:

• Points out the differences between two ideas

• Explains why something happened by showing the direct causal relationship between two things

• Uses sequential or chronological ordering of information or facts. 

• Compares something less familiar with something more familiar

"The average person throughout their lifetime spends five years waiting in lines and queues" is an example of ...

• Citing authority

• Cause and Effect

• Categorize/Classify

• Shocking Statistic

Critic Susan Shepherd notes that, “The description of the execution of the sow in Lord of the Flies is one of the most disturbing passages in Golding’s work.”

• Process Analysis

• Narration and Description

• Citing Authority

• Dialogue

"The city is a busy, bustling place where no one ever stops. The country is peaceful and quiet place where life moves much slower" is an example of

• Contrast

• Cause and Effect

• Comparison

• Analogy

An essay that describes how a bicycle works uses what method of development?

• Narration/description

• Categorize/classify

• Citing Authority

• Process analysis

"While both apple and chocolate pies are types of pie, they are different since apple is a fruit-based pie and chocolate is a cream-based pie" is an example of

• comparison

• contrast

• process analysis

• shocking statistic

The categorize/classify method of development:

• Provides sensory details that enable the reader to see, hear, touch, smell, and taste an experience.

• Compares something less familiar with something more familiar in order to help the reader understand the former.

• Places concepts or things that share sufficient key characteristics together under a single heading as to be considered similar.

In "My Old Newcastle" when Richards writes "adolescent blueberry crops and sunken barns dotted the fields near the bay, where the air had the taste of salt and tar" he is using what method of development?

• Contrast

• Narration and description

• Dialogue

• Analogy

If an essay compared the human body to a city to explain how it functioned it would be using:

• contrast

• analogy

• categorize/classify

• shocking statistic

I said, “I thought it was a pretty reasonable film.”  Bob was less charitable, proclaiming, “That was the worst movie I’ve ever seen!” is an example of:

• shocking statistic

• contrast

• dialogue

• narration/description