Paragraphwriting

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.