CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

Chronological order is listing, describing, or discussing when events happened as they relate to
time. Basically, it is like looking at a timeline to view what occurred first and what happened
after that. For example, if teachers wanted their students to describe their first day of school, the
expectation would be for students to start with waking up that morning and getting prepared. If
students start from the moment they walked into the school, valuable information has been
skipped and could cause the listener to feel confused due to lack of information.

CAUSE AND EFFECT

Cause and effect is a relationship between events or things, where one is the result of the other or
others. This is a combination of action and reaction.

COMPARISON AND CONTRACT ORDER

Compare and contrast essays are multi-paragraph compositions that explain ways in which
two (or occasionally more) subjects are similar and different. In these essays, compare means
describing similarities between the subjects. The essay on farmlife versus city would provide at least
one paragraph on how people's lives in the city are like the lives of the people that live on a farm.
Basically, the comparison tells what they have in common.

Compare is when you tell how things are alike and contrast is when you tell how things are different