DEDUCTIVE ORDER

Deductive order is a pattern of organization wherein a generalization is stated first followed by particulars. It is the reverse of the inductive of arrangement. While the inductive order progresses from the part to the whole, the deductive order progresses from the whole to the parts. The methods of arrangement used in the following paragraph is deductive; that is the writer starts with a general statement of the destruction of animals and proceeds by citing particulars as to how man has done it. Starting with a hypothesis and talking from it, asking if the evidence fits the given theory, and concluding the strength of the hypothesis as explanatory. This approach often means in practice, taking a position and arguing its biggest points first, and descending.