The document discusses various writing skills, including narration, description, definition, exemplification/classification, and comparison and contrast. It emphasizes the importance of sequential event presentation, sensory language, and the use of both objective and subjective descriptions in effective writing. Additionally, it provides methods for defining terms and illustrates how to classify subjects based on shared characteristics.

1. READING AND WRITING SKILLS

2. PATTERN OF DEVELOPMENT IN
WRITING ACROSS DISCIPLINE
• NARRATION
• DESCRIPTION
• DEFINITION
• EXEMPLIFICATION/
CLASSIFICATION
• COMPARISON AND
CONTRAST
• CAUSE AND EFFECT
• PROBLEM-SOLUTION ESSAY
• PERSUASION

3. READ THE SET OF EVENTS AND REWRITE THE
FOLLOWING DETAILS ON YOUR ANSWER SHEET TO
CREATE A COHERENT STORY.
1. Finally, the old lady crossed the street safely and Juan was able to
reach school on time.
2. One morning, Juan is in a hurry going to school.
3. Then, he thought of helping the old lady even though he will be
late in school.
4. Suddenly, he saw an old lady, carrying a full of basket, crossing the
street.

4. NARRATION
refers to the way that a story is told, and so
belongs to the level of discourse (although in first-
person narration it may be that the narrator also
plays a role in the development of the story itself).

5. • In developing narration, sequential presentation of events plays
an important role. Signal words help to create unified thought
and to show the transition of events to the next.This leads us
to focus on the use of the action words in the story.
• The chronological ordering of events helps to show the
reader how the story moves.

6. SUBJECT SIGHT HEARING SMELL TASTE TOUCH
Ex. Beauty
queen
Long-legged
Beautiful
Soft voice Heavenly scent Smooth skin
Concert
Beachside
Adobo

7. SUBJECT SIGHT HEARING SMELL TASTE TOUCH
Ex. Beauty
queen
Long-legged
Beautiful
Soft voice Heavenly scent Smooth skin
Concert Crowded Loud music Stinky
Beachside Relaxing view Sounds of
waves
Fishy smell/
smell like salt
salty Rough
Adobo Mouth
watering
sizzling good Delicious Hot

8. DESCRIPTION
• The use of description plays an important role to
elucidate the nature of people, places and things.A
series of detailed observation about the subject
can help you create a good descriptive paragraph.
This involves the use of adjectives and adverbs in
the paragraph.

9. SENSORY LANGUAGE
• Kind of words we used to describe how
your subject looks, sounds, feels, smells or
even tastes.

10. TWO TYPES OF DESCRIPTION
• Objective description
-The writer presents
impartial and actual picture
of the subject without
biases and excluding
personal impression of the
subject.
• Subjective description
-The writer gives
personal impression of
what is observed.This is
often used in making
fiction stories.

11. TELL WHETHER THE DESCRIPTION IS
SUBJECTIVE OR OBJECTIVE.
1. “This carpet is my favorite color of red.”
2. “I don’t like folk music.”
3. “This carpet is red.”
4. “Even though I don’t like folk music, many professional folk
musicians are objectively skilled players.”
5. “Living in a place that doesn’t have cold winters is better than living
in a place that does.”

12. DEFINITION
• It provides concise but exact meanings of
unfamiliar words and explain special
meanings for familiar words.They are often
used to explain technical words and
concepts.

13. TWO METHODS OF DEFINITION
• INFORMAL DEFINITION
- It could be denotation or connotation
- Denotation- the meaning of the word
is from the dictionary.
- Connotation- it is the secondary
meaning of the word and not
necessarily included in dictionary.
Rather it is how a writer understand
a word based on their own personal
or consensual experiences.
• FORMAL DEFINITION
- It consists ofThree principal parts:
the species (WORD) + Genus
(CLASS)+ Differentiae.The WORD
is the name of the object, process, or
concept defined.This is usually
followed by “is” or “are” and the
CLASS or general group to which
the object belongs.

14. EXEMPLIFICATION/CLASSIFICATION
• Exemplification or Illustration is the
common and effective pattern to explain an
idea or point. In developing this kind or
paragraph, the writer develops a general
statement –the topic sentence, with one or
more examples to support it.

15. TRANSITIONAL EXPRESSION
•For instance
•Namely
•To be specify
•To clarify
•To illustrate
•For example
•In short
•As an example

16. CLASSIFICATION
•It is used when a writer needs to sort
out or arrange subjects to groups or
categories based on their common and
shared characteristics.

17. TRANSITIONAL EXPRESSION
• Classified as
• One kind
• The last group
• Another kind
• Another
• Final type
• The first category
• Are categorized as
• The next part

18. COMPARISON AND CONTRAST