| A | B |
|---|
| One’s readers or listeners | Audience |
| All sentences relate to the main idea | Unity |
| All sentences connect to one another smoothly and logically | Coherence |
| When you tell how two things are alike, you are comparing them; when you tell how two things are different you are contrasting them | Compare and Contrast Order |
| describes a person, place, thing, or experience | Descriptive Paragraph |
| Support of the main idea with facts, statistics, sensory details, incidents, examples, quotations, or visual representations | Elaboration |
| explain something, or provide information on a subject. Also known as informative. | Expository Paragraph |
| relates a story or event using elements of a story, such as: dialogue, setting, plot, conflict, etc | Narrative Paragraph |
| To Persuade, Inform, Explain, Entertain, or Respond (PIEER) | Purposes of Writing |
| offering information to your reader that will persuade someone to see things your way. | Persuasive Paragraph |
| shows how events follow one another in a certain order | Sequential Order |
| shows how people and objects appear. Has the feeling of following a camera as it pans across a scene | Spatial Order |
| States the “Big Idea” of your paragraph, as well as introduces the subject of the paragraph. “Hooks” the reader so they want to read more. | Topic Sentence |
| connecting words that link sentences and help readers relate one event in time to another | Transition Words |
| a cause is something that brings about a result; an effect is the result of the cause. | Cause and Effect Order |
