TX PACT: Essential Academic Skills 700 (Subtest II: Writing - 702) Study Guide

types of organization CORRECT ANSWER Chronological, Cause-Effect, Narrative, Spatial, Topical, Ascending-Descending, Comparison-Contrast types of organization CORRECT ANSWER (also known as text structures or rhetorical patterns) Sequential order CORRECT ANSWER an orderly progression of events, ideas, or steps ex. first, second, third, before, next, finally Chronological order CORRECT ANSWER an orderly progression of events based in time ex. same as sequential order transition words, plus the use of actual dates Order of importance CORRECT ANSWER an arrangement with the most important claim at the top or bottom (most important to least important, or least important to most important) ex. main, key, primary, significant, finally, most importantly