Select three of the major patterns of speech organization and identify which types of topics lend themselves to this particular pattern.

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

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)