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Classification and Division

The document discusses two methods of paragraph development: classification and division. In classification, similar things or processes are grouped together into classes based on attributes like shape, size, or effects. Division involves breaking a topic down into smaller parts or types. The passage then uses classification to break down different types of ceramics used for acid service, grouping red shale acid brick, stoneware, porcelain, and glazed ceramic tile according to their materials and manufacturing processes.

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Classification and Division

The document discusses two methods of paragraph development: classification and division. In classification, similar things or processes are grouped together into classes based on attributes like shape, size, or effects. Division involves breaking a topic down into smaller parts or types. The passage then uses classification to break down different types of ceramics used for acid service, grouping red shale acid brick, stoneware, porcelain, and glazed ceramic tile according to their materials and manufacturing processes.

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Classification and Division

Use classification and division to develop material by relating partsto wholes. In classification, you associate similar things or processes by grouping them into classes. You can classify organisms, mechanisms, processes according to shapes, magnitudes, effects, and so on. In division, you develop a topic by breaking it down into smaller parts. Classification is the tutorial prose strategy. It is an effective approach for showing the terrain of a subject by elaborating uponits essential types. In the following example, corrosion-resistant ceramics are broken down intotypes.

Acid Service: Choice of Materials


Careful design and selection of corrosion-resistant ceramics by process engineers and designers isnecessary for long-lasting, reliable, and costeffective ceramic linings for process equipment. Thefollowing types of ceramics are used for acid service. Red shale acid brick. These bricks are manufactured from iron-bearing sedimentaryclays prepared with low-melting additives. The clay mixture is extruded through a die and then wire-cut into individual bricks. The units are fired to form a bond of melted material between the clayparticles. . . . Stoneware and porcelain. A vitreous or semi-vitreous ceramic ware, stoneware is madewith a fine texture, low-melting-point fireclay. The uniform, chemically resistant microstructure ofa stoneware part offers chemical resistance throughout its service lifetime. Stoneware is used indistributors, packing supports, and . . . Glazed ceramic tile. Industrial glazed ceramic tile units are made of fireclays with aniron oxide content of less than 2%. The clays are processed and then extruded into various shapes. The shaped parts are coated on the process side before firing with a glass-forming glaze solution. Then the tile is fired, the clay body . . .

--Adapted from K. Brooks and M. W. Martin, "Ceramics Stand Up to Acid Service,"Chemical Engineering

Method of Paragraph Development by CLASSIFICATION


Classifying is the grouping together of items/ objects according to a given basis. In classifying, it is important to consider the similarities of objects and dividing them according to their differences.

Mills and Waters (1980) in Igoy et. al. defined classification as almost any act of noting relationships; the act of locating a specimen of all the different kinds of objects which possess a given characteristics.

Example:

"Each of Jamaica's four great gardens, although established along similar principles, has acquired its own distinctive aura. Hope Gardens, in the heart of Kingston, evokes postcard pictures from the 1950s of public parks, gracious and vaguely suburban and filled with familiar favorites--lantana and marigolds--as well as exotics. Bath has retained its Old World character; it is the easiest to conjure as it must have looked in Bligh's time. Cinchona of the clouds is otherworldly. And Castleton, the garden established to replace Bath, fleetingly evokes that golden age of Jamaican tourism, when visitors arrived in their own yachts--the era of Ian Fleming and Noel Coward, before commercial air travel unloaded ordinary mortals all over the island." (Caroline Alexander, "Captain Bligh's Cursed Breadfruit." The Smithsonian, Sep.
2009)

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