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Patterns of development help us develop our ideas and see a topic from various perspectives. Most essays will use a combination of methods.
-exemplification (illustration): The writer uses a series of examples to support a point.
-description: The writer uses facts and senses to support a point.
-classification (and division): The writer sorts plural things into categories according to a dividing principle.
-comparison/contrast: The writer examines the similarities and/or differences between persons, objects, or ideas to support a point.
-narration: The writer tells a story to support a point.
-process: The writer explains step by step how to do something or tells how something works.
-definition: The writer clarifies the meaning of a term to support a point. May use a formal definition or define the term by using synonyms, using negation (telling what it is not), using enumeration (listing its characteristics), or discussing its origin and development (examining the word’s derivation, original meaning, and usages).
-cause and effect: The writer analyses the reason(s) for an action, event, or decision, or analyses resulting consequences to support a point.
Further Mods related to a definition type essay:
-Formal Definition (denotation)
-connotation
-synonyms
-antonyms
-euphemisms
-negation
-enumeration
-etymology (a word's origin and development)
-context: usage, application, etc.
-parts of the word (root, prefix, suffix)
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