Identify and describe six ways to use topical organization when writing an informational report.

Most informational reports use a topical organization,arranging the material by topic in one of the following ways: Comparison shows similarities and differences (or advantages and disadvantages)between two or more entities; Importance builds up from the least important item to the most important (or from most important to the least,if you don't think your audience will read the entire report); Sequence organizes the steps or stages in a process or procedure; Chronology organizes a chain of events in order from oldest to newest or vice versa; Geography uses organization based on region,city,state,country,or other geographic unit; and Category groups information by topical category,such as sales,profit,cost,or investment.