Pre-writing

Yesterday and today we broke up into groups and began collecting facts and other data to compose the Information or Fact Bank, from which we can write our paper.For the Writing Notes:Essays are the organized, coherent, and rational presentation of ideas and information.Organization: one of the main reasons that we are taking the time to go "Fact Finding" is so that we can better organize our paper instead of just having our first paragraph as the first thing that popped into our minds. By having an Information Bank, we are able to analyze the information we have available to us, and then, figure out what the best organizational pattern would be.The basic organizational patterns are:
Chronological.
Literally translating to time sense, this pattern uses time as a guide for the presentation of a writer's ideas and information. For instance, Biographical literature is often time organized in a chronological fashion, birth, upbringing, youth, young adulthood, adulthood, etc... This should be used when information is scaffolding, or, that is to say, when a person needs one fact to understand another fact.
Spatial. SPACE.
This pattern is very simple to use, because it organizes the paper from shortest point to longest point. That way, the reader is gradually introduced to more lengthy and complex topics rather than beat over the head in the beginning by some highly demanding concept.
Climactic. Importance.
This is a pattern that rates ideas, facts, or information, by importance and has a reader order his or her paper that way. What you achieve here is a sort of warming up effect, just like a runner before a race. You don't want to give your most important fact first as you may not yet have your readers attention.
Topical. Components or Parts.
This pattern derives its organization simply from the parts of the entity being discussed. For example, break down the parts of a watch having a paragraph for each part. This would equal a topical organizational pattern.This Information or Fact Bank will allow us to give our paper rational organization and coherence rather than just putting good information in whatever random order we can fathom.