The document discusses various methods of organizing writing, including chronological order, climactic order, definition essays, space order, appropriate details, comparison and contrast, and cause and effect. Each method is explained with examples to illustrate how they effectively convey ideas and enhance communication. Additionally, it outlines inductive and deductive reasoning as strategies for structuring arguments.

1. Organizing Your Writing
Ma. Martha Manette A. Madrid, Ed.D.
Professor
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2.  Organization in writing is
how ideas are presented.
 Typically, organization refers
to the larger parts of a piece
of writing, although it also
refers to how paragraphs and
sentences are written.

3. Chronological Order
- presents ideas according to
the time in which they
occurred. This type of
organization is especially
effective if you are describing a
process, relaying a series of
actions, or telling a story

4. Climactic order or Emphatic
order
-requires you to arrange your
ideas according to their
importance.
-Do you want your
strongest, most important
point to hit the reader
immediately or do you want
these points to appear near the
end?

5. Definition
-A definition essay is writing that explains
what a term means. Some terms have
definite, concrete meanings, such as
glass, book, or tree. Terms such as
honesty, honor, or love are abstract and
depend more on a person's point of
view.
Three Steps to Effective Definition
 Tell readers what term is being defined.
 Present clear and basic information.
 Use facts, examples, or anecdotes that
readers will understand.

6. Space order
- means writing about objects in the
order of where they are located.
- When you are writing a description of
how something looks, or how to go
somewhere, you need to use space
order.
- For example, you can describe
something from the top to the
bottom, from the nearest point to the
farthest point, from the right side to
the left side.

7. Appropriate Details
-uses details to support a thesis
or illustrate an idea
-uses clearly appropriate details
to support a thesis or illustrate
ideas displays consistent facility
in the use of language
-demonstrates syntactic variety
and appropriate word choice

8. Comparison and Contrast
-Comparisons allow you to analyze and
evaluate two or more concepts.
-You can compare two concepts by showing
either the differences or the similarities
between them.
-This type of organization is especially
effective in showing how one concept is
better than another. This way, you can
persuade readers to choose one over another.

9. Cause and Effect
Causes tell readers why something
happened.
For example, numerous stolen bikes on
campus cause students to register their
bikes. Smoking causes lung cancer.
Effects are the results of something.
For example, fifty new bike racks were put
on campus with funding from registered
bikes. Twelve hundred smokers die every
year from lung cancer.

10. Inductive order
(from specific to general)
- make a general statement and
support that statement with specific
examples
Deductive order (from
specific to general)
- provide the reader with specific
information and then make a
general conclusion.