ENG 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Subject Complement, Biographical Dictionary, Linking Verb
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Needs to begin the essay but also capture the interest and imagination of your readers and inform them of your subject. Can be more than one paragraph long. Should not mechanically list main points - should provide support or con rmation for your central ideas. Types of arrangements: spatial and chronological: Spatial arrangement: used when you describe a person, place, or thing (ex. view buildings from street level to the towers above) Chronological arrangement: narrate events that take place in time: climactic and inverted: Climactic: begins with the least important point and builds up to the most important point. Block: go subject by subject, rst discussion all of topic a and then go subject by subject discussing topic b. Alternating: discuss the rst subject for topic a and then b, and then discuss the second subject for topic a and then b, etc: problem-solution and question-answer.