The Importance of Arrangement

Arrangement is important.

Occasionally, I post to my personal and movie review blogs. When I write new posts, I am often aware of the importance of an introduction, body, and conclusion, but not necessarily aware of the importance of arrangement. It is certainly important to arrange all the sentences and paragraphs in your writing to blend and work well together, while also conveying your main points to the reader.

While reading about arrangement in chapter 3 of the book, "Patterns For College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide" written by Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell, I learned some new tools and important tips on how to arrange any piece of writing, whether it be an essay or a blog post.

As a college student, I think these three points from chapter 3 are the most important and helpful in arranging, developing, and outlining your writing:

1. The Introduction must: introduce subject, create interest, and state thesis.
2. The Body Paragraphs must be: unified, coherent, and well developed.
3. The Conclusion must: reinforce thesis, restate main idea, and review key points.

There are many more details and sub-points in this chapter that are also helpful. If you would like to know more, I would suggest reading "Patterns for College Writing." 

Personally, I think this chapter has really helped me to better recognize and appreciate the importance of arrangement.

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