The Writers World: Paragraphs and Essays

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The Writers World Paragraphs and Essays

• Part II essay Patterns
• Chapter 9 Classification

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Chapter 9 ClassificationWhat is Classification?

• When you classify, you sort a subject into
  clear, well defined, understandable categories.
• Each of the categories must be part of a larger
  group, yet they each must be distinct.

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Chapter 9 ClassificationThe Classification essay

• To find a topic for a classification essay,
  think of something that can be sorted into
  different groups.
• When you are planning your ideas for a
  classification essay, remember these two points
• Use a common classification principlethe overall
  method used to sort the subject into categories.
  It is one common characteristic that unites the
  different categories.
• Sort the subject into distinct categories. A
  classification essay should have 2 or more
  categories.

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Chapter 9 ClassificationThe Classification essay

• To find a topic for a classification essay, think
  of something that can be sorted into different
  groups.

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Chapter 9 ClassificationThe Classification essay

• When you are planning your ideas for a
  classification essay, remember these two points
• Use a common classification principlethe overall
  method used to sort the subject into categories.
  It is one common characteristic that unites the
  different categories.
• Sort the subject into distinct categories. A
  classification essay should have 2 or more
  categories.

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Chapter 9 ClassificationThe Topic Sentence

• The topic sentence in a classification essay
  clearly indicates what a writer will classify.
  It also includes the controlling idea, which is
  the classification principle that you use.
• Mention the types of categories in your topic
  sentence.

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Chapter 9 ClassificationThe Supporting Ideas

• After you have developed an effective topic
  sentence, generate supporting ideas.

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Chapter 9 ClassificationThe essay Plan

• In the classification essays, you can list
  details about each of your categories.
• You can break your categories and your supporting
  ideas down in a detailed classification chart.

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Chapter 9 ClassificationThe First Draft

• After you outline your ideas in a classification
  plan or chart, you are ready to write the first
  draft.
• Remember to write in complete sentences.
• Transitional words or expressions to show
  importance above all, clearly, the most
  important, most of all, particularly.
• Transitional words or expressions to show types
  of categories one kindanother kind, the
  first/second type, the first/second kind, the
  last category.

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Chapter 9 ClassificationRevise and Edit a
Classification essay

• Review your work and revise it to make sure the
  categories do not overlap.
• Check to make sure that you have organized your
  essay logically, and remove any irrelevant
  details irrelevant details that do not refer to
  your topic sentence.
• Proofread and revise for grammatical, spelling,
  and punctuation errors.
• Write the final draft.