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Patterns of Development

The document discusses patterns of development in writing and how writers use patterns to make relationships between ideas clear to readers through specific transitions and typical methods of developing ideas. It also includes a quotation from Bruce Lee about patterns being incapable of adaptability or pliability and truth existing outside of fixed patterns.

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Patterns of Development

The document discusses patterns of development in writing and how writers use patterns to make relationships between ideas clear to readers through specific transitions and typical methods of developing ideas. It also includes a quotation from Bruce Lee about patterns being incapable of adaptability or pliability and truth existing outside of fixed patterns.

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PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENT

develop naturally or are


selected based on the main
idea.
are emphasized by writers to make
the relationships between ideas clear
to readers, e.g., writers use specific
transitions that help readers connect
sentences.
are characteristic, or typical,
methods of developing ideas in
writing.
BRAIN TEASER CHALLENGE
Read the following quotation from Bruce Lee, the
actor who became famous displaying his very real
martial arts abilities in a string of successful films. In
your own words, what does he mean to say about
pattern, and do his words apply to the patterns of
organization you just learned to recognize?
All fixed set patterns are incapable of
adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all
fixed patterns.

COPYRIGHT LARAINE FLEMMING 2009

Pliability: flexibility, capable of changing


or bending

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