College Writing Skills with Readings 8th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 23

Part A Read the essays listed below (page numbers are in parentheses) and identify their method of organizing details-time order, emphatic order, or a combination of both.
"Look on the Bright Side" (page 231)
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Part B Now see if you can complete the explanations that follow.
The essay titled "Adopting a Handicap" uses ( add the missing word ) ______________ order. The author begins with the challenge of learning to sit properly in the wheelchair, then moves on to learning to move in the wheelchair, and ends with several problems that occurred next, during the church service. "A Vote for McDonald's" uses ( add the missing word ) ______________ order. The writer presents three advantages of eating at McDonald's and ends with the most important one: reasonable prices. "Look on the Bright Side" uses a combination of ( add the missing words ) _____________ and _________ order. It moves from something that took place one morning, to one that took place at lunchtime, to one that took place one evening. It ends with one of "the worst and best examples of human behavior" that the author witnessed.