Maria Isabel Fuentes Portela

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 are important, that is the same case for an essay, for example. When the author recognizes the structure, he or she can begin by writing a sketch so that the important ideas do not dispel during the writing of the text. Finally, it is important to remember that writing is a process and as any other process the more you perform it, the better you will become on it. So never forget Mark Twain’s words: “cross out the wrong words”.

 References
Clearly, S. (2017) Why text structure is important. Corelaboratewa. Retrieved from: https://corelaboratewa.org/why-text-structure-is-important/
[Dan Sussman]. (2012, January 22). What is a paragraph? [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mweXIEOZjQQ
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