You just read passages from two different pieces by Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and a letter comparing aspects of life in America to life in England. Each piece was written for a different purpose and has different, though related, ideas to express. In each case, Franklin selected text structures, or organizational patterns, that would help him express his ideas.
In the passage below, the boldfaced transition word provides a clue that can help you identify the pattern Franklin chose to connect the ideas in this paragraph.
The increase of inhabitants by natural generation is very rapid in America, and becomes still more so by the accession of strangers; hence there is a continual demand for more artisans of all the necessary and useful kinds, to supply those cultivators of the earth with houses, and with furniture & utensils of the grosser sorts which cannot so well be brought from Europe.
What kind of organizational pattern does hence indicate?
Like since, because, and therefore, the word hence signals a cause-and-effect relationship: Because the population is increasing rapidly, the new country needs more and more artisans to supply practical goods and services.
See if you can match each passage below with the organizational pattern that Franklin used to show the relationship among several main ideas. Note that a passage may create more than one type of connection between ideas; choose the one that fits best
But my father, in the meantime, from a view of the expense of a college education, which having so large a family he could not well afford, and the mean living many so educated were afterwards able to obtain—reasons that he gave to his friends in my hearing—altered his first intention, took me from the grammar-school, and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic, kept by a then famous man, Mr. George Brownell, very successful in his profession generally, and that by mild, encouraging methods. Under him I acquired fair writing pretty soon, but I failed in the arithmetic, and made no progress in it. At ten years old I was taken home to assist my father in his business, which was that of a tallow-chandler and soap-boiler; a business he was not bred to, but had assumed on his arrival in New England, and on finding his dyeing trade would not maintain his family, being in little request.
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Which organizational pattern fits BEST?
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spatial order
chronological order
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I was generally a leader among the boys, and sometimes led them into scrapes, of which I will mention one instance, as it shows an early projecting public spirit, tho' not then justly conducted.
There was a salt-marsh that bounded part of the mill-pond, on the edge of which, at high water, we used to stand to fish for minnows. By much trampling, we had made it a mere quagmire. My proposal was to build a wharf there fit for us to stand upon, and I showed my comrades a large heap of stones, which were intended for a new house near the marsh, and which would very well suit our purpose.
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Which organizational pattern fits BEST?
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general to specific
cause and effect
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In the old longsettled countries of Europe, all arts, trades, professions, farms, etc. are so full that it is difficult for a poor man who has children, to place them where they may gain, or learn to gain a decent livelihood. The artisans, who fear creating future rivals in business, refuse to take apprentices, but upon conditions of money, maintenance or the like, which the parents are unable to comply with. Hence the youth are dragged up in ignorance of every gainful art, and obliged to become soldiers or servants or thieves, for a subsistence.
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Which organizational pattern fits BEST?
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compare and contrast
chronological
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