Organizational Strategies

Organizational strategies are seldom determined simply by the nature of the information. Rather, you should take into consider the intersection of purpose, audience, and information which your document comprises.

These are common organizational strategies.

• Classification - organizes information into groups that share common characteristics

• Partition or spatial division - organizes information into major components and their minor sub-components

• Segmentation - explains relationships of events over time

• Comparison - presents one element in the terms of another

• Cause/effect - describes and persuades by means of identifying causal relationships

• Problem/solution - organizes material in response to a dilemma

• Experimentation - organizes the information given, the purpose, aim, materials, procedures, results, and discussion in that order