Chronology/Procedure

 Organize ideas or events according

to time
Pattern of Development
Signal Words
 Logical arrangement of ideas
After Afterwards Immediately Soon
Definition Before As soon as First Then
 “What does it mean?” In the at Later Till
meantime At Meanwhile Today
 Use of illustrations, examples, and Prior to this/that Next Tomorrow
descriptions Second point Presently Until
Signal Words soon During Prior to When
About Eventually Second Yesterday
Is defined as Finally
As defined
Means
Refers to Listing
To define  Organizes ideas using enumeration
To illustrate
Signal Words

Exemplification Additionally And

 Presents the general statement and Again And then Moreover
Besides Another Next
then provide examples Further As well Together with
Signal Words Moreover Furthermore Likewise
Equally In addition Also
After all important In the same way
For example Along with
As an example Put another way
For instance
In other words Specifically
In other words
That is Stated differently
In particular Comparison–contrast
To be specific To clarify
In short
Consider the
Namely
To illustrate  Organizes ideas based on how
following events, places, people, things and
concepts are similar to or different
from one another
Description Comparing
 Provides details on the idea by using
either a sensory or spatial pattern
also in a similar
Signal Words as fashion
both in comparison
Above Alongside Beside Inside Over in the same way likewise
Across Amidst Beyond Into Throughout like similarly
Between Around By Off Down equally to compare
Near Away from Farther On Under
To the right Back of Here On top of Along
Adjacent to Behind In Onto Beneath Contrasting
Against Below Infront of Opposite to Outside
although even so the fact remains
and yet even though unlike
but in contrast whereas
instead in spite of yet
yet in the meantime still
otherwise however despite
as opposed to nevertheless Counter to
conversely on the contrary on the other hand
Classification and Division Persuasion
 Organizes ideas into categories or  Organizes ideas to show how a set of
divisions based criteria and evidence leads to logical conclusion
standards. or argument.
Signal Words Signal Words Emphasizing a Point

Another Again Indeed

The first category
Classified as For this reason To emphasize
The last group
Final type In Fact To repeat
The next part
One kind In that case Truly
Another kind
The next part With this in mind

Signal Words Concluding and Summarizing

Cause and effect
 Organizes details based on the cause Inevitably
Accordingly Finally
and the result of a certain All in All In any event On the whole
phenomenon As a result In brief Since
Signal Words for Cause As I have said In conclusion In essence
Consequently In short In a nutshell
Due to In summary Therefore
As For the reason that Seeing that Thus To sum up
Because In that Due to
Being that In view of Owing to
For In as much as Signal Words Conceding to a Point
Since One reason
Admittedly No doubt Needless to say
Signal Words for Effect Assuredly Obviously Unquestionably
Certainly Of course Undoubtedly
Accordingly For this reason So that Granted To be sure
As a consequence Hence Therefore It is true that True
As a result In consequence Thus
Because So
Consequently So much (so) that

Problem-solution
 Organizes ideas into problems and
proposed solutions.
Signal Words

But Nonetheless
First, second One reason for the
One solution is One way is
The problem The solution