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Explore different organizational patterns used in effective communication to structure arguments persuasively. Learn the significance of description, narration, exemplification, definition, classification, cause and effect, compare and contrast, and process analysis. Discover how these patterns can elevate your communication skills.
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Opening Thoughts… Have you ever rehearsed, or thought about what you were going to say before you argued with someone? (mom,dad,BF,GF) How much did it help you?
SW identify patterns of organization used by writers and speakers. Organizational Patterns How writers organize their ideas to make convincing arguments.
Description emphasizes the senses by painting a picture of how something looks, sounds, smells, tastes, or feels • Narration refers to telling a story or recounting a series of events. It can be based on personal experience or on knowledge gained from reading or observation. • Exemplificationproviding a series of examples – facts, cases, or instances - turns a general idea into a concrete one. • Definition lays the foundation to establish common ground or identifying areas of conflict. • Classification What are its parts or types? How can its parts or types be separated or grouped? Do its parts or types fit into a logical order? Into what categories can its parts or types be arranged? • Cause and Effect analyzing the causes that lead to a certain effect or, conversely, the effects that result from a cause • Compare and Contrast juxtaposing two things to highlight their similarities and differences is what comparison and contrast is all about • Process Analysis explains how something works, how to do something, or how something was done.
identify 1. Which pattern of organization? “Never before had Pedro experienced such a depth of despair and such a sense of isolation. He began to avoid those nearest to him, returning their friendly greetings with rough and indifferent replies. Often he sat in his room staring vacantly into space with hollow eyes. His hands were cold and clammy most of the time; yet his forehead burned hot with a mysterious fever. It seemed that guilt was literally eating him alive.”
identify 2. Which pattern of organization? “I was seven years old when I first became aware of the terrible power of guilt. For piling our toys into a box, Mother rewarded my brother and me with five shiny pennies. If I had ten pennies instead of five, I could have brought a gingerbread man with raisin eyes and sugar-frosted hair.”
identify 3. Which pattern of organization? “Guilt is the remorse that comes from an awareness of having done something wrong. The origin of guilt is psychological. From childhood, we have all been conditioned by family and society to act within defined standards of reasonableness and decency.”
identify 4. Which pattern of organization? “Guilt is caused by the failure of the will. The human mind, according to Freudian theory, is delicately balanced between the drive for instant gratification that comes from the id, and the desire for regulation and postponement that originates in the superego, which is sometimes identified with what we call the conscience.”
practice Answer one of these questions using the pattern of your choice. • Would you rather be without elbows or be without knees? • Would you rather have hair nowhere on your body or be very hairy all over and not be able to shave?
Practice: Write TWOof these! Description: describe the funniest thing you’ve ever seen (paragraph). Narrative: tell me an embarrassing moment in your life. Process Analysis: tell me how something works. Exemplification: give me some examples of the different Cliques or groups of teenagers in our school.
