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Recognizing Different Organizing Patterns of Texts

The document discusses different organizing patterns of text, highlighting three main methods: time order, order of importance, and spatial order. Time order involves narrating events sequentially, while order of importance arranges sentences based on significance. Spatial organization describes details based on their physical location relative to a chosen starting point.

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Recognizing Different Organizing Patterns of Texts

The document discusses different organizing patterns of text, highlighting three main methods: time order, order of importance, and spatial order. Time order involves narrating events sequentially, while order of importance arranges sentences based on significance. Spatial organization describes details based on their physical location relative to a chosen starting point.

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Recognizing

Different
Organizing
Patterns of Texts
Nasr Hani Mirza
Recognizing different
organizing patterns of text:
 There are several ways to organize
sentences in a paragraph.
 Three well known ways are:
 1) Time order
 2) Order of Importance
 3)Spatial order
Time Order
 When you tell a story, you tell a story in
order of the events that occurred.

 You begin by telling what happened first


in the story. Then you tell what
happened second, third, and so on.
 What is the topic sentence?
 How are the supporting sentences
organized?
 What is the concluding sentence?
Note the signal words
Order of Importance:
 Paragraphs often have sentences
arranged from order of most important
to least important or from least
important to most important.
Note the topic sentence and
the signal words
Organizing Information by
Spatial organization:
 When you describe a place such as a room or a
park, you organize details according to their
location. This is called spatial order.

A starting point is chosen, then describe where


the things are located in relation to your starting
point. You must chose a logical method, for
example left to right, top to bottom, or front to
back.

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