Select three of the major patterns of speech organization and identify which types of topics lend themselves to this particular pattern.
What will be an ideal response?
Students' answers will vary depending on the patterns they choose:
- Time pattern: for topics that lend themselves to past, present, and future divisions or temporal relationship.
- Spatial pattern: for topics that can be discussed in terms of space-top to bottom, right to left, east to west.
- Topical pattern: for topics that have relatively equal divisions.
- Problem-solution pattern: for topics that identify a problem and propose solutions.
- Cause-effect/Effect-cause pattern: for topics that explain a causal relationship.
- Structure function pattern: for topics that can be divided into what it is (structure) and what it does (function).
- Comparison-and-contrast pattern: for topics that identify similarities and differences.
- Pro-and-con pattern: for topics that explain advantages and disadvantages.
- Claim-and-proof pattern: for topics that make an assertion or claim and then offer evidence in support of the claim (proof).
- Multiple-definition pattern: for topics that explain the varied meanings.
- Who? What? Why? Where? When? pattern: for topics that explain or report about an event or happening.
- Fiction-fact pattern: for topics that can clarify misconceptions (the fictions) and offer a more logical explanation (the facts)
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