Chapter 13

Chapter 13 is about organization. There are many patterns of organization to choose from: chronology, description, definition, cause/effect, process explanation, pro/con, multiple perspectives, comparison/contrast, strengths/weaknesses, costs/benefits, and problem/solution. When arranging your argument, make sure to label evidence, group evidence, use clustering, and use mapping. It is a good idea to create an outline. Try an informal outline, and if you don’t like it or want to try both, you can also create an informal outline with topical outlines or sentence outlines. In my experience, organization can make or break a paper. If you stay organized and on top of things, you will feel confident and stress-free n writing your paper. Make a schedule and keep to it, and put your full effort in. If you do this and stay organized, you will avoid last minute cramming, avoid forgetting things, avoid all these English class death sentences. Staying organized in anything can be helpful, but in writing a paper, it is so much more important because you can’t afford to lose, misplace, or completely forget important information because of bad organization. No one likes to write stressed, and with an easy tool like organization to get rid off that stress, take advantage of it.