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Chronological/Historical


  1. First Paragraph and Introductory Sentences

  2. Chronological or Historical patterns involve discussions about a current or fairly recent time in history. The author will put forth evidence that this current state of affairs is due to something; this can be a direct or indirect correlation. What is important is that they will relate the current situation to a similar historical situation.

  1. Body

  2. The author will either use a straightforward chronological approach, ordering the events as they occurred, and demonstrating how they contributed to the existing phenomenon.

  3. Or, the author will discuss other theories that have a historical cause/effect basis to them. This might take the form of statements like, "Historian A believes X occurred because of the actions of Y, while Historian B disagrees and says instead that Z was responsible for Y's actions."

  1. Final Sentences

  2. The author will recap in conclusion that the current situation is due to one or more events, ideas, studies, etc.

  3. Or, the author will conclude that multiple events led up to the current state, recaps those events, and draws the reader's attention to all contributing supporting facts.

Classification


  1. First Paragraph and Introductory Sentences

  2. This method is often used in scientific papers where the author discusses two or more basic things. They could be theories, categories, types, or classes of a particular phenomenon.

  1. Body

  2. The body will include all the necessary detail for the reader to become familiar with each category or classification.

  3. There may be a certain amount of comparison and contrasting done of the differing items.

  4. There might even be further division in additional subclasses, as has happened in the recent past in the archaeological field of human and sub-human classifications, based on the most recent findings.

  1. Final Sentences

  2. The discussion may conclude by completing the description of the various classes and subclasses, with no conclusion being drawn.

  3. Or the author might present the necessary data to establish a new sub-class or sub-category.

  4. The author may only be using the passage to educate the reader as to how the specific classification system is being used to test theories.



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