• Genres of [Patterns of] Exposition:  Identify the best pattern that suits the assignment.
  • Examples: Narration, Persuasion, Comparing & Contrasting, Describing, Defining

• Principles of Organization: Make sure the information in the writing is organized logically for the reader to follow
  • Examples:  most/least important to least/most important, most/least interesting to least/most interesting, past to present or present to past, general/specific-to-scpecific/general, most/least-familiar-to-most/least-familiar, simplest-to-most-complex, order of frequency, order of familiarity, topical order, climactic order, psychological order, chronological order, time order, spatial order

• • Examples: expressive details, specific examples

• 8-1/2 by 11 paper (No ripped edges)
• your name, date, your teacher's name, the assignment name
• title
• double or single space lines
• 1 inch margins
• indented paragraphs

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