An effective author has a plan in mind for getting her point across to the readers, as similar to the coach of the team. She organizes the details in a pattern that helps her achieve her goal of a clear, easy-to- comprehend paragraph. She uses the main idea to help choose an appropriate writing pattern. Writing patterns are ways that authors organize material they present. The writing patterns referred to organizational patterns, patterns of organization, patterns of development, and thinking patterns. pattern, or none of An author can introduce every part or a pattern, some parts of a and the parts with clue words or signals. The patterns are list, sequence, definition, cause-effect, comparison-contrast. Let's look at each pattern and its clue words and signals