Modes of Development

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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• Exemplification/Classification

• 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

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• 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

• Description

• Cause and Effect

• Definition

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

• Description

• 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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• 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

• Exemplification/Classification

• Descriptive

• Definition

This pattern of development also provides humorous meaning of a popular term to enlighten people about a controversy.

• Persuasion

• Definition

• Compare and Contrast

• Description

This pattern of development is the method by which one divides things into groups, classes, or categories.

• Exemplification/Classification

• Compare and Contrast

• Problem-solution

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