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See also Rhetorical patterns when writing an academic text.

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Organizational Patterns or Text Structure

<aside> 💡 At the thesis statement level, choose the one organizational pattern that best suits your overall argument. At the section and paragraph levels, it's common to consider a combination of organizational patterns.

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• Order of Importance (thesis statement, section level, and paragraph level)
• Topical (thesis statement, section level, and paragraph level)
• Sequence (thesis statement, section level, and paragraph level)
• Cause & Effect (section or paragraph level)
• Spatial (section or paragraph level)
• Compare & Contrast (paragraph level)
• Problem & Solution (paragraph level)
• Chronological (paragraph level)

Reasoning Patterns (Machi & McEvoy, 2009)