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Classification
3 Write effective classification essays.
Whether you know it or not, classification comes naturally to you.
From the time you are born, you explore. You discover that some
things are pleasurable and others are painful, that some things are
edible and others are not. Those are your first lessons in classification.
By the time you reach adulthood, you divide people, articles of
clothing, words, teachers, and ways of behaving into different types or
categories so automatically that you are barely aware of it. When you
answer a classmate’s question, “What kind of teacher is Dr. Burton?”
or reply to a friend who asks what kind of day you have had, you are
classifying.
Laying the Groundwork for Writing
Classification Papers
