A.6.3.NAR:4.3 - Ordering rationale
The ordering rationale is not decoration. It is the structure-to-sequence rule.
Common ordering rationales:
| Ordering rationale | Use when |
|---|---|
| Event order | The selected source structure is a sequence of happenings or state changes. |
| Causal order | The selected source claims describe causal links whose order matters to understanding a mechanism, dependency, intervention, or consequence. |
| Discovery order | The narrative teaches how a claim, design, or explanation was found. |
| Didactic order | The source material is reordered so a learner can build prerequisites and reconstruct the selected source structures later. |
| Tension order | The narrative preserves conflicts, trade-offs, obstacles, failed attempts, or unresolved alternatives. |
| Traversal rule | The source material presents a graph, architecture, relation set, or option field and the narrative follows a declared path through it. |
If the source material only changes carrier form, file format, export layout, OCR extraction, or byte order, this pattern is not open. Carrier serialization alone is not narrative rendering.