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3. Some common ways of listing details in the body: … II. Classification (Logical division) What is classification? Classification is to group or sort things into a small number of classes systematically according to a certain principle. 2. How to develop your writing by classification? Choose and apply a single principle/criterion at a time Do not overlap the classes Make the classification reasonably complete Give sufficient explanation to clarify and differentiate the given classes Introduce sub-classes if necessary Sample 1 Children’s Insults Peter Farb (1929-1980) had an intense interest in language and its role in human behavior. In this essay, Farb classifies the names children use to insult one another. The insults spoken by adults are usually more subtle than the simple name-calling used by children, but children’s insults make obvious some of the verbal strategies people carry into adult life. Most parents engage in wishful thinking when they regard name-calling as good-natured fun which their children will soon grow out of. Name-calling is not a good-natured fun and children do not grow out of it. As adults they merely become more expert in its use. Nor is it true that “sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt one.” Names can hurt very much because children seek out the victim’s true weakness, then jab exactly where the skin is the thinnest. Name-calling can have major impact on a child’s feelings about his identity, and it can sometimes be devastating to his psychological development. Almost all examples of name-calling of children fall into four categories: Names based on physical peculiarities, such as deformities, use of eyeglasses, racial characteristics, and so forth. A child may be called Flattop because he was born with a misshapen skull – or for obvious reasons, Fat Lips, Four Eyes, Peanuts, and so on. Names based on a pun or parody of the child’s own name. Children with last names like fitts, Farb and McClure usually fin