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CLASSIFICATION ESSAYS

The classification essay uses one of the key skills required not only for writing other essay types but for living life generally: the ability to sort ideas and things into categories. In a classification essay, a writer organizes, or sorts, things into categories.

6.1 LANGUAGE FOCUS: Common Classification Transitions

  • The first kind, the second kind, the third kind
  • The first type, the second type, the third type
  • The first group, the second group, the third group

STUDYING EXAMPLE CLASSIFICATION ESSAY

 

Learning Styles

When I was in high school, I had to write down everything in order to learn it. I was jealous of my friend Martha who seldom wrote anything down, but who learned everything better than I did. I always wondered why this was so. Later, in college, I learned that people simply have different learning styles. In fact, there are three distinct styles of learning: visual learners, auditory learners, and kinesthetic learners.

Visual learners need to see words, diagrams, charts, outlines, or pictures in order to truly understand and remember the material. These people remember a page in a book like a photograph. One example of a visual learner is my friend Annette. Annette is a biology student, and she has to listen and take notes to long lectures in her field. The way she remembers the lecture material is by transforming her notes to diagrams when she gets home. A line drawing or a diagram tells her more than pages and pages of text. For a visual learner, this is the best way to study.

The second type of learner is the auditory learner. This kind of person needs to hear words or sounds in order to master new material. For a student like this, silent reading is not the best way to learn, but he or she will be excellent at following oral directions. Hiroshi, for instance, is an auditory learner. He always asks the teacher to record words and sentences, sometimes whole pages, on his tape recorder. At home, he listens to the tape over and over. As a result, his pronunciation is the best in the whole class. A person with this learning style should make sure to recite everything he studies he can listen to his own words.

Finally, there are the kinesthetic learners. People with this learning style like "learning by doing." Sometimes they learn best by manipulating objects, moving around, or doing role-plays. My friend Mohammed is a good example. He is a wonderful piano player, and he says that he learns English by pretending that grammar rules are laid out on a piano keyboard. To remember one of them, he often moves his fingers up and down on the desk. He "plays" English as he plays the piano. Kinesthetic learners especially enjoy laboratory classes since they can use their whole bodies in learning. To study effectively, they should try to act out the material they are learning.

In conciusion, while most people use a combination of these three styles, one style may work best for one individual. In addition, students may do better in school if they figure out which style works best for them and then adapt their studying method to that style.



Task 10. To understand the content and organization of the essay better, answer the following questions:

1. What is the organization of the essay?

2. What is the writer’s main message in this essay?

3. How is the introduction begun?

4. Find the thesis statement of the essay.

5. What categories for classification are announced in the introduction?

6. How do you know that this is a classification essay?

7. How the categories are developed in the body paragraphs?

8. What connecting words are used? Underline them.

9. What is the conclusion?

 


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