13983346800 | Modes of discourse | Exposition Narration Description Argumentation | 0 | |
13983374226 | Rhetorical strategies | example, contrast, comparison, definition, cause, effect, process, analysis/division, classification | 1 | |
13984488504 | Rhetorical structure | strategies to convey the purpose of the piece | 2 | |
13984503226 | Example | Example is a specific event, person, or detail of an idea cited and/or developed to support or illustrate a thesis or topic | 3 | |
13984521329 | Contrast/Comparison | A method of presenting similarities and differences between or among at least two persons, places, things, ideas | 4 | |
13984556849 | Contrast/Comparison organization | Subject by subject Point by point Combination | 5 | |
13984562952 | Cause and effect | Establishes a relationship: B is the result of A. Can emphasize the cause or the effect, or be treated equally. It can detail the single cause with many effects, or several cause with a single effect, or any combination. | 6 | |
13984626213 | Classification | Separates items into major categories and details the characteristics of each group and hwy each member of the group is placed within the category. | 7 | |
13984647563 | Process | Process is simply "how to" do something or how something is done. Process can have one of two purposes: instruct or inform. Chronological order. | 8 | |
13984676867 | Definition | Definition identifies the class to which a specific term belongs and those characteristics which make it different from all the other items in that class. | 9 | |
13984840171 | Narration | Nothing more than storytelling. A beginning, middle and an end, but there's a point to it | 10 | |
13984891355 | Description | Writing that appeals to the senses. It can be objective, scientific, clinical, impressionistic. | 11 |
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