TEXT FEATURES &

THE DIFFERENT
WRITING PATTERNS
Mr. Laurenz Gerald A. Cruz
RWSN11S
OPENING PRAYER
Lord of light and wisdom, grant us
bright intellect, sound judgment
and retentive memory. Help us to
study patiently, orderly and
diligently to develop our gifts and
make good use of them according
to your will, as we commit
ourselves to Veritas et Fortitudo,
Pro Deo et Patria. Amen.
 LESSON OBJECTIVES:

 Identify the different text features and patterns of development in

texts across disciplines;

 Analyze sample texts by looking closely at their structure and

patterns of organization as a way of increasing awareness of the
relationship of textual ideas to one another,
TYPE OF TEXT FEATURES

TITLE
Identifies the
topic
TYPE OF TEXT FEATURES

HEADINGS &
SUBHEADING
S
Boldface / italics
Help a reader see the
organization of a text
TYPE OF TEXT FEATURES

GRAPHIC AIDS
Sidebars, maps, illustrations, photographs,
charts, tables diagrams
Present findings or other data in/for the text
 TYPE OF TEXT FEATURES

TIMELINES
Show information visually
instead of the words
 TYPE OF TEXT FEATURES

BULLETED &
NUMBERED LISTS
Show items of equal importance
TYPE OF TEXT FEATURES

QUESTIONS
May be used to focus the
readers’ understanding of the
text
TYPE OF TEXT FEATURES

CAPTION
A text that
accompanies a
graphic aid
Gives information
that is not
necessarily obvious
from the image
itself
TYPE OF TEXT FEATURES

TABLES OF
CONTENT &
INDEXES
Help a reader locate
specific information
PATTERNS OF
DEVELOPMENT
 PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENT

Also called pattern of

organization, also text
structures
These are specific ways writers
organize their writing for a
specific purpose.
 NARRATION
 Essentially storytelling

DESCRIPTION
 Creating an accurate, vivid, or verbal picture
of an object, geographic feature, setting,
event, person, or image.

DEFINITION
 Explaining the meaning of something
CLASSIFICATION
 Breaking a large subject into categories based on
consistent and useful principle of division
PERSUASION
 Convincing to believe and eventually acting on
someone’s belief or opinion
CAUSE – AND – EFFECT
 Shows causal relationships between events,
ideas, and trends.
 May be directly stated or merely implied by
the order in which the information is
presented
 May be used in historical and scientific
writing
CAUSE – AND – EFFECT
 Shows causal relationships between events,
ideas, and trends.
 May be directly stated or merely implied by
the order in which the information is
presented
 May be used in historical and scientific
writing
TYPES OF WRITING PATTERNS
COMPARE – AND – CONTRAST
 Provides a way to look at similarities and
difference in two or more topics/subjects
 May be used to compare important points or
characteristics (point of comparison)
 Several ways of development: a) Subject – by –
subject organization; b) Point – by – point
organization
PROBLEM – SOLUTION
 A problem is stated and analyzed, with
one or more solutions are proposed and
examined.
 Often used in persuasive writing such as
editorials of proposals
SEQUENCE
Can be in terms of:
 chronological order in which the
events take place
 Spatial order, the order of things in
space
 Order of importance , from the most
important to the least important, or
vice versa.
TYPES OF WRITING PATTERNS
MAIN IDEA & DETAILS
 A central idea about the topic is presented and
supported by details.
 Main idea: most important idea about the topic of a
text
 Supporting Details: words, phrases, sentences that
tell more about the main idea in form of examples,
facts, statistics, or quotes.
 MI can be stated or implied.
 Also called illustration (examples used to support)
Seatwork:

Answer page 28-29 of

your Reading and Writing
Skills book
 ASSIGNMENT:
Answer the following on your
book, pp. 30 and 32.