Modes of paragraph development Flashcards
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
Cause and effect/causal analysis
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.
Comparison and contrast
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.
Definition
describing means the expression of sensory experiences in vivid, specific, and concrete language
Description
separating dissimilar ideas and grouping or categorizing similar concepts together
Division and classification
elaboration or explanation by giving examples; some techniques are as follows: anecdotes, details, facts, observations, opinions, visual illustrations
Exemplification
telling a story or any sequence of events
Narration
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
Persuasion
a subtopic of causal analysis (see above), problem-solution deals with the analysis of issues and possible answers to resolve them
Problem-solution
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
Narrative devices
brief narratives that are written from the writer’s memory
Anecdote
a word or a series of words enclosed in a pair of quotation marks, which signal the characters’ spoken language
Dialogue
an event that happened in the past; “flashing back” or quickly looking at something that had already happened
Flashback
an event that has yet to happen in the story; “flashing forward” or quickly looking at something that will happen in the future
Flashforward
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
Time stretch
characterized by jamming together multiple events and/or shortening a relatively long period of time
Time summary
using all five (5) human senses to perceive a concept
Observation
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
Outline
a group of sentences that deals with one particular idea.
Paragraph
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
Paraphrasing
appear to the emotions, specifically pity and compassion
pathos
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
pidgin
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
Plagiarism
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
Accidental
