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Essay Development Directions: This activity will help familiarize you with how professional
writers develop their essays. Visit any or all of the following sites and
locate an essay that interests you. The
New York Times Magazine The Atlantic Monthly Harper's Salon Magazine New Scientist The
Smithsonian Activity 1: Identifying Patterns Now consider the different patterns of essay development: - Description
- Narration
- Exposition
- Examples
- Comparison and contrast
- Process
- Definition
- Cause and Effect
- Division and classification
- Argumentation
Which predominant pattern of essay development has the writer you've
chosen employed? Are additional patterns involved as well? How would changing
the predominant pattern change the essay?
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