Use appropriate grammatical signals or expressions suitable to each pattern of idea development: ● general to particular ● claim and counterclaim ● problem-solution ● cause-effect and others

1. • Using appropriate grammatical signals or
expressions suitable to each pattern of idea
development

4. Many people consider Manila, to be an
environmentally friendly, pollution-free place
to live. They would be shocked to know how
many pollutants are in the air causing a
multitude of health problems in its citizens.

5. When Nancy moved to Manila, with her
husband and two kids, she expected to find a
clean, pollution-free city. She was shocked
and angered when her daughter was
diagnosed with asthma caused by air
pollution.

6. • Problem and
mentions
pollution’s
impact on all
citizens
Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2
• Focuses on
one
specific
family

7. Other Ways to Think about Organizing
My Ideas

9. • shows causal relationships between events
• Authors often use this organization to assert and explain arguments about how
things are and how they got that way.

10. • describes a problem and proposes a solution.
• It often debates the relative merits of multiple solutions before arguing in
favor of the best solution.

11. • Describes the sequence in which events occur
in time.
• Narrative is made of
successive events. Not
necessarily in the order they
occurred.
• Chronology is the order of
these events consecutively in
time.

12. • explains how two or more objects or events are similar or different.
• it is often useful to create graphic organizers, such as venn diagrams,
compare/contrast lists, and data matrices, to compare features across different
categories.