Sophia: Organizing Your Paper

Two slideshows and a screencast on organizational patterns used when writing essays and speeches. The first is a 20-slide presentation explaining the seven most common organizational patterns used in writing: time sequence, spatial, problem-solution, cause-effect, compare-contrast, topical, and emphatic. The second is an 8-slide presentation discussing how to follow the chosen pattern throughout the entire essay. Finally, the screencast [5:12] demonstrates how to write an outline for a multi-paragraph piece. W.11-12.4 Clear/Coherent Writing