Paragraph writing

unityFaulty Start Lack

of Topic Sentence

coherenceDevelopment of Ideas

Paragraph Writing

• Writing is an essential job skill

• Builds your ability to explain complex positions

• Develops communication and thinking skills

• Helps give others feedback and helps others give feedback to you.

• Writing expresses who you are as a person

• Organization of the paragraph

• VOCABULARY CHOICE

Unity

• It means that all the sentences refer to the main idea, or the topic of the paragraph.

• Exercise 1: The original student paper:

• I live in a flat with my family. We have two bedrooms and a living room. We have a garden and we have some flowers there. In weekdays I arrive home at five o'clock and I have lunch. Then I do my homework and go to bed. I had a computer but now it doesn't work. I have a brother and a sister and I think I am very lucky to live with them. Sometimes our relatives visit us. Our flat becomes very crowded sometimes but I like it

coherence

• It means that the sentences should be organized in a logical manner and should follow a definite plan of development.

Faulty Start

• A nonsense sentence:

• E.g. I want to talk about

 friendship.  

• 2.    A cliché:

e.g.  Friends plays a great role in our lives.

Friendship is a very important issue in today's world.

Lack of Topic Sentence

• Topic sentence is the main idea, your attitude, your evaluation of something.

Development of the ideas• It means that

every idea discussed in the paragraph should be adequately explained and supported through evidence and examples.