Do You Organize Your Writing?

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There are many ways to organize your writing. Ways of organizing are time order, cause and effect, problem and solution, compare and contrast, question and answer, and description. Time order is when you write a paragraph or other writing in the order that things happened. Besides time order, there is also cause and effect. Cause and effect and problem and solution are similar. When you use cause and effect, you write a cause and then write about what happened because of the cause. A cause is usually an event. Problem and solution uses cause and effect. With this way of organizing, the cause is always a problem that needs to be solved. The way to solve the problem is the solution. Time order, cause and effect, and problem and solution are not the only way to organize your writing. Compare and contrast is helpful when you want to write about at least two things that are alike and different. Question and answer allows you to write a paragraph (or more) starting with a question. You then spend time answering the question in your writing. Besides compare and contrast and question and answer, there is also description. Description organization is like you hit pause in your writing. While you are on pause you take a lot of time to describe what is happening. You need to do this well so that your readers can really picture what you’re writing about in their heads. So in all, is this the way you do it too?