Classical & Contemporary Arrangement

This site is to help you think about arrangement strategies for written discourse. As in the case with all arrangement strategies, whether for writing, speaking, or decoration, feel free to adapt each of these to your particular rhetorical situation.

The site is split into four major categories:

Essay Arrangement Strategies
In this section, you will explore four different major arrangement strategies. One page will compare and contrast the strategies to help you think about how or why each one might work or not work for you. Finally, the sixth area is a list of argument types, or modes, a specific arrangement strategy.

Strategies that Help with Essay Arrangement
This section will give you some tips, questions, outlines, and ideas on how to decide to organize your discourse. It also includes a few more tips on constructing introductions and conclusions.

Paragraphs
The paragraph section includes suggestions on how to focus, organize, and revise paragraphs that fit into your argument.

Transitions
Finally, no written discourse will read well without transitions to help connect the sentences, paragraphs, and sections. The transition section will provide lots of examples on how to keep your argument running smoothly.