Paragraph Types

Julieth Tatiana Corredor Arias

Brigitte Valentina Rodríguez León

What is a paragraph?

A paragraph is defined as a group of related sentences in which one single, main ideas is developed. Is differentiated from the rest of

fragments by a point and apart and by having capital letter at the beginning.

PROCESS OF WRITING

Gather: revelant information

Organize: meaningful sequence

Draft: first/ rough draft

Edit: check

Publish: final version

Types of paragraphArgumentative: It seeks to convince the receiver

about something that is denied or affirmed.

Descriptive: describes an object, person or event.

Narrative: present facts or actions occurred in an orderly manner.

Comparative: presents similarities and differences between two or more objects, events, or any

phenomenon.

Chronological: it expresses the order in which a series of events happened.

Cause - effect: presents a fact and its consequences.

Example: a young man with high alcohol consumption (cause) decided to drive his father's car, but lost control of the vehicle in a curve and

hit a tree (effect)

Deductive: the main idea is placed at the beginning and then developed.

Inductive: The main idea is placed at the end. In these cases specific cases are used to arrive at a generalization that concludes what was affirmed.

In conclusion: expresses the closing of a certain topic.

Closing: round the general idea of the text and a summary of this.