How do you determine the order of importance for paragraph development?

Answer 1

Having clear, logical organization makes your writing more effective! You can use any one of a number of types of organization - some of them will be more effective than others for your particular writing, of course.

The trick is to make it logical. You need to think about whether what you are writing is going to make more sense in one order or the other.

List all of your facts so you can see them. Now, try out different orders for them. Will your paragraph work better in a "general to specific" order, or would a list of examples be best?

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Answer 2

An order of importance is showing the order of importance to details in relation to one another, to build up to or down from your most point. You can place that main point either at the beginning or the end and work accordingly.

Answer 3

Yes! So long as you use some kind of order, your paragraph will be fine. Using chronological order is good if you are writing a paragraph to explain the steps for doing something, or to describe an event. Using order of importance would be good for writing a paragraph about different groups, or judging which thing is best. It is best to write a paragraph using some sort of order - it does not matter what sort for most paragraphs.