The document discusses the misconception that Manila is a pollution-free city, contrasting this with the reality of significant air pollution that affects residents' health, as illustrated by a family's experience with asthma. It explores various organizational patterns for presenting arguments and solutions, including causal relationships and chronological sequences. Additionally, it suggests using graphic organizers to effectively compare and analyze different aspects of pollution and its solutions.

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.