Modes of paragraph development

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identifying the causes and effects of a particular situation, event, or phenomenon; purpose of using such mode of paragraph development can largely be categorized into three (3): informative, speculative, or persuasive

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Cause and effect/causal analysis

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comparison entails dealing with the similarities or likeness of at least two subjects. Contrast, on the other hand, is tackling the differences between or among subjects.

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Comparison and contrast

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defining is trying to understanding the meanings of a word or an expression; analysing, delineating, exploring, and discovering the different aspects of a particular concept.

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Definition

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describing means the expression of sensory experiences in vivid, specific, and concrete language

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Description

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separating dissimilar ideas and grouping or categorizing similar concepts together

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Division and classification

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elaboration or explanation by giving examples; some techniques are as follows: anecdotes, details, facts, observations, opinions, visual illustrations

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Exemplification

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telling a story or any sequence of events

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Narration

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as opposed to argumentation (see above), persuasion is the process of defending one’s claims not only by the use of logic but also with emotional appeal

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Persuasion

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a subtopic of causal analysis (see above), problem-solution deals with the analysis of issues and possible answers to resolve them

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Problem-solution

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what writers utilize to add flavour and enrich the meaning of their narrative essays; with these devices, an author can shorten, lengthen, and/or focus on a particular event in the story

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Narrative devices

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brief narratives that are written from the writer’s memory

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Anecdote

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a word or a series of words enclosed in a pair of quotation marks, which signal the characters’ spoken language

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Dialogue

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an event that happened in the past; “flashing back” or quickly looking at something that had already happened

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Flashback

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an event that has yet to happen in the story; “flashing forward” or quickly looking at something that will happen in the future

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Flashforward

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a single event in the story that the author focuses writing about or is “stretched” in lengthy sentences and/or paragraphs to achieve emotional intensity

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Time stretch

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characterized by jamming together multiple events and/or shortening a relatively long period of time

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Time summary

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using all five (5) human senses to perceive a concept

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Observation

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is a summary that gives the essential features of a text and shows how the parts of a text are related to one another as parts that are of equal importance, or sections that are subordinate to a main idea. It is also used to organize your ideas when writing

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Outline

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a group of sentences that deals with one particular idea.

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Paragraph

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choosing a one whole paragraph from the resource material and rewriting all of it using youe own words; only the order of retained in the rewritten version, while the syntax and vocabulary should be different to avoid being accused of plagiarisim

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Paraphrasing

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appear to the emotions, specifically pity and compassion

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pathos

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in a colonized area, a pidgin is a language that is a misture of the local language of and the colonizers’ for the purposes of trade, commerce, and business; it is characterized by oversimplification of words and syntax on both the local and foreigner’s languages; a pidgin that becomes a first language or mother tongue is called a creole

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pidgin

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both the conscious and unconscious copying someone else’s work and claiming the copy as your own without due to citation; considered a form of dishonesty and raises the issue of intellectual property rights

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Plagiarism

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plagiarism done unintentionally; while there is an attempt to paraphrase, summarize, and/or quote resource materials, in-text citation and bibliography are still mainly forgotten usually due to carelessness

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Accidental

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verbatim copying of any part of your resource material to your own research paper, original syntax, and quotes are borrowed without quotations marks, plus some words are only replaced with synonyms

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Direct

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using your own previous work, or a combination of the words you used in your previous works, and passing it to your instructor as a whole new submission

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Self

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how a paper is told in terms of the pronouns used; carries the voice and tone of a given piece of text, can be largely categorized into three (3): the 1st POV (i.e. I, me, we, us), the 2nd POV (i.e. you), and the 3rd POV (he, she, it, him, her, they, them)

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Point of view (POV)

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is looking at the readily visible parts of the text

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Previewing

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This is the first stage of the writing process, where you discover ideas before writing the first draft of a paper

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Prewriting

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resource materials whose data is personally acquired by the researcher, some techniques of gathering such sources are through interviews and notes taken from observations

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Primary sources

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are documents that are written for problem solving, service provision, event planning, or equipment selling

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Project proposals

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defined as the reason why you are writing

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Purpose

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is a cognitive process of decoding symbols in order to derive meaning from a text

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Reading

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as the prefix “re” and the root word “-search” suggest, research is the process of retrieving already established truths, assumptions, or reality to be used as credible data to support a claim

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Research

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a document that contains a brief account of a person’s education, skills, work experience, and other qualifications; it is usually sent along with job applications, and sometimes with school applications as well.

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Resume

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is the general process of going back through your whole draft, from start to end, and improving on or clarifying your writing subject’s meaning

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Revision

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as opposed to primary sources, secondary sources are resource materials that do not make use of data that the researcher personally gather him/herself, rather, the data was already collected by someone else is used by the researcher mereley to support his/her claims; some examples of secondary sources are collected from reading, paraphrasing, summarizing, and/or quoting from books, journal articles, magazines, newspaper clippings, online articles, etc.

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Secondary sources

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is looking for the main point of the reading

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Skimming

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in writing the gist of your resource material; should be shorter than the original body of text you are trying to cite

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Summarizing