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This is a writing strategy that organizes all steps in the writing process. It teaches
students four different organizational structures for writing papers: stories,
comparison-contrast, explanations, and problem/solution. When writing stories,
students use key story elements – Who? When? Where? What happened? How
did it end? – to organize their papers. A comparison-contrast structure includes
information about what is being compared, on what characteristic is being
compared, and how they are alike or different. Explanations involve telling how to
do something. In a problem/solution structure, a problem is identif