Lesson 01

PATTERN OF
DESCRIPTION
WITH TEACHER FAITH ANGELICA
Welcome
Students!
 Most Essential Learning
Competency
Compare and contrast patterns of written texts across
disciplines.
Sub- Competencies: • The
learners should:
1. Distinguish the similarities
and differences among
patterns of written text
3. Illustrate each pattern of
development in writing
across disciplines through
graphic organizers

2. Identify the pattern of

paragraph development
used in various text
 Lecture 1
Every writer writes for a reason. When a person is happy and in love, s/he gets
inspired to write to inform the world of his or her feelings. When a teacher
requires the class to submit an essay or critique an article or short story, a student
is forced to write even if s/he is not interested in writing any. Whatever is the
reason why a person writes, he writes for a purpose. And this purpose may be to
inform, to explain, to convince, to impress, to actuate, to entertain, or to simply
share an experience, as the example given above about a person sharing his or
her emotions about being in love. No matter what his or her purpose is, s/he has to
learn methods of developing information into the habit of orderly writing.
 PATTERNS OF Development by Description
DEVELOPMENT IN
WRITING Description is the most commonly used method of writing
a paragraph. Its purpose is to present an image or a
picture. In this method, the writer should be able to draw
things clearly in the minds of the readers by the use of
adjectives, so that the readers will be able to imagine what
the writer has seen, felt or has experienced. In order to be
effective, a paragraph of description must show a careful
selection of ideas, in an accurate choice of words, and a
logical order of details.
 PATTERNS OF
Development by Narration.
DEVELOPMENT IN
WRITING A narrative paragraph is the most difficult to write
compared to other types of paragraph development.
Similar to a descriptive paragraph, a narration is also
spiced with picture words so that it will not only appeal to
the emotion of the reader but also to his intellect. Its events
must be arranged according to the order of time or
chronological order and should be related. Transitional
devices or aids such as first, second, next, then, finally, etc.,
are used.
 PATTERNS OF Development by Comparison
DEVELOPMENT IN and Contrast

WRITING
Comparison means explaining how a thing is
similar to another; contrast explains what a
thing is not like. This type of development
shows how a person, animal, or thing
mentioned in the topic sentence resembles or
differs from someone or something else.
 PATTERNS OF
Development by Definition. T
DEVELOPMENT IN
WRITING This is a method that gives a satisfactory
explanation of the meaning of a word and may
point out the special limitations of its meaning.
A development by definition is very important
especially in doing scientific research or
preparing term papers.
 PATTERNS OF Development by
DEVELOPMENT IN Classification

WRITING Classification is almost any act of noting

relationships. Technically, it is the act of
locating a specimen of all the different kinds of
objects which possess a given characteristic. It
is the systematic arrangement of things that
are related and is based on principles or basis
in order to come up with a well-organized data.
 PATTERNS OF Development by Cause and
DEVELOPMENT IN Effect.

WRITING In the cause and effect method of paragraph

development, the writer explains how certain
causes produce results or effects. This method is
particularly suitable for argumentation, exposition,
and narration. A writer using this type may start
from cause to the effect or from the effect to the
cause.
 PATTERNS OF Development by Problem
DEVELOPMENT IN and Solution.

WRITING Problem and solution is another pattern of

organization where an information is presented as a
problem or issue and a solution that can be done to
solve that issue. This should not be confused with the
cause and effect pattern of development in writing,
although this has always happened. The cause and
effect pattern does not present a solution to the
problem; rather presents the effects of a problem.
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1. Narration and Description
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