College Composition / Unit 15 CMP 0369 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Mixing Patterns
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The idea
Longer papers often combine reasoning strategies, using one as the overall frame and others within paragraphs.
In practice
A problem-and-solution paper might define a term in one paragraph, compare two solutions in another, and trace causes in a third.
Where people slip
Mixing works when one pattern governs the whole; otherwise the paper reads as a series of unrelated exercises.
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