FREE ESSAY ON PARADIGM ANALYSIS

PARADIGM ANALYSIS

Paradigm Analysis
Definition the process of dividing anything complex into
simple elements or components; it is the 
systematic separation of a whole into parts, pieces, 
or sections.
Characteristics 
Pattern One Introduction
Characteristic 1
Characteristic 2
Characteristic 3
Summary
Pattern Two Introduction 
Cluster of features 1
Cluster of features 2
Cluster of features 3 
Summary
Questions asked 1. What are its pieces, parts, or sections?
2. How may they logically be divided?
Key words characteristics, feature, aspect, division into parts,
section, sector, segment, element, member, 
component, constituent, portion, fraction, 
fragment, particle, entity, trait, particular, part,
subdivision, unit, piece, detail, ingredient
More key words whole, resolve, collectiveness, break up, aggregate,
embody, mass, analyze, entirety, dissect, 
embodiment, compose, bulk, distinguish, totality, separate, unity, constitute, sum,
partition
Amazed
Every time our eyes meet
This feeling inside me
Is almost when you touch me
I can feel how much you love me
And it just blows me away
I've never been this close to anyone or anything
I can hear your thoughts
I can see your dreams
I don't know how you do what you do
I'm so in love with you, it just keeps getting better
I wanna spend the rest of my life with you by my side
Forever and ever
Every little thing that you do
Baby I'm amazed by you
The smell of your skin
The taste of your kiss
The way you whisper in the dark
Your hair all around me, baby you surround me
You touch every place in my heart
Oh, it feels like the first time every time
I wanna spent the whole night in your eyes
I don't know how you do what you do
I'm so in love with you, it just keeps getting better
I wanna spend the rest of my life with you by my side
Forever and ever
Every little thing that you do
Baby I'm amazed by you
Every little thing that you do
I'm so in love with you
It just keeps getting better
I wanna spend the rest of my life with you by my side
Forever and ever
Every little thing that you do
Oh, every little thing that you do
Baby I'm amazed by you more than I can take
Baby
Sample Paragraph
This poem is actually a song. This song means that someone has found true love. The
feeling that the person describes is talking about love. This feeling is the greatest
feeling in the world. To feel love in your heart that is all a person could need to be
happy. This poem just really means a lot if a person actually reads it and feels what the
poet is actually saying.
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Paradigm Cause/Effect
Definition Cause- a cause is a force or influence that produces an effect; it is an
agency or operation responsible for bringing about an action, event, condition or
result.
Effect- a effect is anything that has been caused; it is something worked out,
accomplished, or produced. 
Characteristics 
Pattern One Introduction
Cause 
Effect
Effect
Summary
Pattern Two Introduction
Cause
Cause
Effect
Summary
Pattern Three Introduction
Effect
Cause
Cause
Summary
Pattern Four Introduction
Effect 
Effect
Cause
Summary
Questions asked 1. What is its purpose?
2. Why did it happen?
3. What are its causes?
4. What are its effects?
5. How is it related causally to something else?
Key words Cause- origin, principle, agent, mover, influence, source, author, instrument,
foundation, font, first, producer, prime, support, geneses, rational, intention, the
straw that broke the camels back
Effect- consequence, result, outcome, performance, handiwork, derivation, development,
offshoot, outgrowth, end, production, creation, harvest, issue
Both- cause, accomplish, make possible, thus, because, owing to, by means of,
consequently, accordingly, bring about, follow from, result from, since, if, then, as a
result, an account of, by the agency of, for this reason, produce, effect, do to,
therefore, in effect, originate 
Sample Paragraph
The main cause for water pollution would have to be from big factories and corporations.
They will drain off all of there nasty pollutants into rivers and streams. These rivers
and streams will then flow into major lakes and rivers and eventually into the oceans.
This cause is ridiculous and should not even happen. All it is, is a bunch of factories
that are to lazy to clean all this junk their selves, so instead they dump the waste into
the small streams thinking that nothing will happen. 
Paradigm Classification
Definition process of grouping similar ideas or objects, the systematic arrangement of
things into classes on the basis of shared characteristics
Characteristics
Pattern One Introduction (thesis + map)
Type 1
Type 2
Type 3
Summary
Questions asked 1. What are its types?
2. What are its basic categories?
Key words kinds, sorts, types, classes, varieties, categories, sources, orders, clusters,
groups, classify, compile, a symbol, string together, collect
Sample Paragraph
The people in English 111-01 look and dressed various ways. The day this assignment was
made the writer was not there, therefore making him have to write about previous days he
has been there. There are always more women in the class than men. Usually some women
about three or four are bummed out in there clothing. Meaning that they dress down. Then
there is about four or five GQ girls in class. Meaning that they are all pretty looking.
They guys always dress different also. There is always at least one person wearing a hat.
Then there is always one guy who is wearing nice clothes, and the rest always dress
casual. There is a cluster of the same people in our class, yet there is variety of
people who dress different. 
Paradigm Compare/Contrast
Definition discovering the similarities and differences between two or more ideas,
objects, or events.
Characteristics
Pattern One (half + half) Introduction (thesis + map)
Subject 1
Characteristic 1
Characteristic 2
Characteristic 3,4,5
Subject 2
Characteristic 1
Characteristic 2
Characteristic 3,4,5
Summary
Pattern Two (characteristics) Introduction (thesis + map)
Characteristic 1
Subject 1
Subject 2
Characteristic 2
Subject 1
Subject 2
Characteristics 3,4,5
Subject 1
Subject 2
Summary
Questions asked 1. What is it like?
2. How is it similar to other things
3. How does it differ from other things?
Key words Compare--similar to, like, correspond to, 
resemble, as, in like matter, likewise,
similarly
Contrast--differ from, however, in contrast 
to, on the other hand, on the contrary,
in opposition to, after all, at the same 
time, for all that, notwithstanding, 
otherwise, nevertheless, less than,
more than, unlike, although, and yet,
but, in spite of, still
Sample Paragraph
Youth and age, there are so many similarities and differences within both of them. Youth
is the great experience of ones life, a time to be carefree, do anything, have no
regrets, and find what you enjoy. Age comes with wisdom and knowledge, along with
different taste than before as well as the same. A few of these compare and contrast
within youth and age will be given in this essay.
Paradigm Definition
Definition setting bounds or limits to a thing, or idea, to state its essential nature, a
kind of abstract description.
Characteristics
Pattern One Extended Definition
Introduction (includes thesis and map)
Meaning 1 (partial definition of key term)
Meaning 2 (partial definition of key term)
Meaning 3 (partial definition of key term)
Meaning 4, 5, 6
Summary/Conclusion
Pattern Two Extended Definition
Introduction (includes thesis and map)
Expansion of genus, species, or etymology
Expansion of the differential
Summary/Conclusion
Pattern Three Extended Definition 
Introduction (includes thesis and map, logical definition)
Supporting details
Supporting details
Supporting details
Summary/Conclusion
Questions asked 1. What does it mean?
2. What is its genus?
3. What is its species?
4. What is its etymology?
Key words define , strictly speaking, interpretation, explain, particulars, literal,
specify, in other words, synonym, limit, denotation, paraphrase, clarify, meaning,
explanatory
Methods of defining
1. Logical definition (put the word to be defined into a class and then differentiate it
from other members of the same class)
Term Class Differentiation 
Flextime work schedule employees choose own hours
2. Synonym (substitute a word or phrase for an equivalent word or phrase) 
A jock is an athlete.
3. Etymology (trace the origin and historical development of the word, including and
change in its form or meaning)
What does the word lucid mean? This word comes from the Latin word lux, lucis, which
means light. If you shed light on an idea, it is made clear.
4. Dictionary definitions
5. Stipulation (using a definition different from the conventional one, or a definition
that makes clear that it will explore a particular area of meaning of a term)
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said scornfully, "it means just what I choose it to
mean, neither more nor less." We do not have that luxury.
6. Negation (what a word is not). In discussing euthanasia, a writer might say, "By
euthanasia I do not mean active intervention to hasten the death of the patient."
7. Examples (both real and hypothetical ones may be used to bring to light abstract and
ambiguous terms)
Insanity is a word that has been used and misused to describe a variety of conditions.
8. Extended definition (referring not to length but to the variety of methods for
developing the definition.)
Materialism may be best described by using a longer more detailed definition. 
Sample Paragraph
Paradigm Description
Definition a way of picturing images verbally in writing and of arranging these images in
some kind of logical or associational pattern
Characteristics
Pattern One Introduction (including theses)
Descriptive feature 1 (plus supporting details)
Descriptive feature 2 (plus supporting details)
Descriptive feature 3 (plus supporting details)
Summary (including clincher sentence)
Pattern Two Introduction (including thesis)
Cluster of descriptive details
Cluster of descriptive details
Cluster of descriptive details
Summary (including clincher sentence)
Questions asked 1. What are its constituent parts?
2. What are its features or physical characteristics?
3. How is it organized in space?
Key words Shape/size - great, little, large, small, solid, 
leaf-shaped, rectangle, stalk-shaped, full, tall, round, shallow, fat, bunches, 
squat, blocks, pyramid, parallel
Color - brown, red, yellow, green, purple,
gold, silver, orange, peppered, dark
cherry, chocolate. 
Texture - creased, sprigs, stripped, frill,
peeled, grated, crust, glass, cut
Sight - spiral, star-shaped, tubular
Taste - sweet, salty, sour, bitter, corrosive, rough,
smooth, soft, crisp, cool and warm
Smell - pungent, tart, sour, rancid, musky, floral
Sound - shrill, piecing, screech, moan, groan
Spatial order
Vertical (bottom to top, top to bottom)
Horizontal (left to right, right to left)
Depth (inside, outside)
Circular (clockwise, counterclockwise) 
Sample Paragraph
English 111-01 looks like any ordinary classroom. This room is always quite all the time.
With eight rows on two sides of the room it can pretty full of people at times. Today
there are only sixteen people in class. Guess a person could say not everyone came to
class today. The first day of class everyone was here. Now, tow days later, only half the
class is in attendance. With only half the people here, it lets a person have a chance to
look around the room a little to see what is in here. There is of course a chalkboard in
the front of the class along with two bulletin boards, one on each side. Also there is a
podium in the front facing the sixteen tables. The class is quite boring in looks. Not
much to it, but it is only a classroom. It will be a fun class though, that is why it is
English 111-01. I like our teacher as well. Dr. Hayes talks about his grandkids all the
time. This shows the class that he is a caring person and a very lovable, a great quality
to have for a teacher. Most often people do not find good quality teachers such as Dr.
Hayes, or as others prefer, Richard. Yes, this class will be a wondrous adventure.
Paradigm Process
Definition a series of actions, changes, functions, steps, or operations that bring about
a particular end or result.
Characteristics
Pattern One Introduction
Step 1 (or phase 1)
Step 2 (or phase 2)
Step 3 (or phase 3)
Summary
Questions asked 1. How did it happen?
2. How does it work?
3. How do you make it or do it?
4. What are its stages or phases?
Key words phase, occurrence, step, change, alteration, mutation, state, condition,
conversion, displacement, transformation, fluctuation, inconstancy, inversion,
permutation, modulation, qualification, metamorphosis 
Sample paragraph 
The process of changing your bedspread is a very important part of one's life. Why would
someone want to sleep in dirty sheets? They would not so there for this is how a person
can change and wash their sheets. Step one, strip the bed clean of all sheets. Step two,
bring the sheets to the washing machine for cleansing. After the sheets are fully washed,
displace them and place them into the dryer. This step is vital to the process. A person
cannot go through this whole transformation without completing the dryer stage. Phase
three of this process requires a person to take the sheets out of the dryer and put them
back onto the bed neatly and nicely. The only way this series will be complete is if the
sheets are then put back onto the bed. After the third phase is completed the
transformation of dirty to clean sheets is complete. Congratulations!
Paradigm Enumeration
Definition is concerned with the sequential arrangement of successive things: a group of
objects, events, or ideas, generally following each other in the order of time in which
they occur.
Characteristics 
Pattern One Introduction
First (the first one)
Second (the second two)
Third (the third three)
Summary
Questions asked What is the logical order?
What is the exact number?
Key words number, order, series, succession, progression, string, chain, set, sequel,
sequence, list, item, catalog, tally, analyses, to count, to catalog, to number, to
enumerate, to itemize 
Sample Paragraph 
The process of changing your bedspread is a very important part of one's life. Why would
someone want to sleep in dirty sheets? They would not so there for this is how a person
can change and wash their sheets. Step one, strip the bed clean of all sheets. Step two,
bring the sheets to the washing machine for cleansing. After the sheets are fully washed,
displace them and place them into the dryer. This step is vital to the process. A person
cannot go through this whole transformation without completing the dryer stage. Phase
three of this process requires a person to take the sheets out of the dryer and put them
back onto the bed neatly and nicely. The only way this series will be complete is if the
sheets are then put back onto the bed. After the third phase is completed the
transformation of dirty to clean sheets is complete. Congratulations!