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Writing well is a challenging task, and it becomes more difficult when you must write in your second language. However, this task is a good exercise to improve many aspects such as your grammar usage and vocabulary.  This blog shows the final paragraphs written by students of an Academic Writing class. Each student chose one type of paragraph and after a process which began with an outline, this is the final result of each one of those processes.  We also provided a suggested paragraph outline which aims to ease the process of writing a paragraph. Moreover, there are some reference links that the reader can check to discover new information about writing paragraphs that is the initial step to master writing essays.  Welcome to our blog on writing paragraphs!

Suggested Paragraph Outline

SUGGESTED STANDARD OUTLINE EXAMPLE TOPIC SENTENCE Main idea that is going to be discussed or argued through the whole paragraph. Buying a car can be difficult. Supporting Idea 1 Supporting idea that can be:    an argument   a description   an idea telling part of a story   an explanatory idea an idea persuading your audience an argument depending on the kind of paragraph you are writing. Consider the best thing to do investing your savings or money from your credit card to buy a car.   Supporting Idea 2 Supporting idea that can be: an argument a description an idea telling part of a story   an explanatory idea   an idea persuading your audience   an argument depending on the kind of paragraph you are writing. Determine what is your income each month, maybe you are going to need more money if you have a car; you are going...

Maria Isabel Fuentes Portela

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EXPOSITORY PARAGRAPH Writing is always thought as a hard exercise but as Mark Twain said: you just have to “cross out the wrong words”. First of all, it is important to set the topic and stay focused on it, If you will write an article about oatmeal’s benefits, for example, stay focused on your topic. At first sight this would seem like a nonsense advice, however imagine you are speaking about the oatmeal’s benefits and you begin speaking about milk’s benefits, fruits’ benefits, dairy’s benefits and so on. You will end up writing about a general topic and you wanted to be more specific. Secondly, it is important that you know the general structure of the type of text you are approaching. Scott Clearly (2017) states that: “students are generally not aware of the different structures authors tend to use, so explicit instruction on types of structures is imperative.” If you are writing an article about the oatmeal it is important that you recognize what parts an article has which a...

Fabiola Suárez

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ARGUMENTATIVE PARAGRAPH  Contrary to Mark Twin’s idea “Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.” the process of writing is difficult and implies a deep knowledge of English language to express coherent and clear ideas. In a first instance, writing requires a deep knowledge of the language because it is a process that requires the use of grammar, punctuation, syntax, spelling and proper vocabulary. Thus, the correct use of grammar, spelling and proper vocabulary are essential through the writing process, for instance, it is not the same write that a person has a decent salary to write that a person dissent his salary. Besides, some other issues related to the complexity of the language structure deal with words that make no sense, the order of the words, homophones and regional dialects. (Oxford Royale Academy, 2014) Then, there is important to write coherent and clear ideas in a way that anybody can understand view points in a text keeping unity and co...

Jhonatan Yecid Garcia Venegas.

A good descriptive paragraph is easy to write, it includes many vivid sensory details that paint a picture and appeals to all of the reader's senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste when it is appropriate. Descriptive paragraph may also paint pictures of the feelings the person, place or thing invokes in the writer. A descriptive paragraph will usually focus on a single event, a person, a location or an item. When you write your paragraph, it is your job to convey your idea about that topic through your description of that topic and the way that you lay things out for your reader. You need to show your reader (not tell them) what you are trying to describe by illustrating a picture in their mind’s eye very carefully. Your paragraph needs to be structured in a manner that helps your topic to make sense. If you are describing an event, you will need to write your paragraphs in chronological order. If you are writing about a person or a place you need to order the paragraph...

Rubistela Castaño

Paragraph Outline Narrative Writing is easy To write narrative is better to know what are you going to write about, the topic should be meaningful, to be sure the reader understand the events in the narrative, is like story telling , where the steps show the setting of the story, it’s important to make emphasis in the topic sentence, and we aware that the next sentences really go with what you wrote in your topic, the narrative should be full of details, so the reader know all the descriptions and be part of the narrative, like go inside of the story. The creativity is part of narrative, it should be spontaneous but a well-organized structure.  To write the Body paragraph imust make the thought flow spontaneous and stress free. It's structure and components should be organized well. After introducing the topic, you can proceed further to the body paragraph. Flashbacks should be limited. Paragraph During my life, I was faced with many situations where I had to make...