Chapter II: The Paragraph

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Learning to Write
Chapter II The Paragraph
Lecture Two Building a Paragraph
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Paragraph
Composition
1. Narration 2. Description 3. Argument 4.
Exemplification 5. Listing 6. Process 7.
Classification 8. Cause effect 9. Comparison
contrast
1. Narration 2. Description 3. Argumentation

4. Exposition
Ways of presenting supporting facts
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Lecture Two Building a Paragraph

1. Exemplification
2. Listing
3. Process
4. Classification
5. Narration

6. Description 7. Argument 8. Cause effect 9.
Comparison contrast
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Building a paragraph
Exemplification

Different people have different ideal
careers. For example, some people wish to, while
others may hope that
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Building a paragraph
Listing
Online learning has many advantages.
First, . Second, . Third, . Last, .
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Building a paragraph
Process
To make tea, follow these steps. First, .
Next, . And then, .
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Building a paragraph
Classification

A drink may be classified according to
whether or not it contains alcohol. Therefore,
basically, there are two types of drinks
alcoholic and non-alcoholic. Alcoholic drinks are
spirits, wine, beer. Non-alcoholic drinks may be
sub-divided into hot drinks and cold drinks. Hot
drinks are drinks like tea and .
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Building a paragraph
Classification

Sports have become more and more popular
in the world. In Europe,. In America, .In Asia,
.In Africa, .
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Building a paragraph
Classification

Sports have become more and more popular
in the world. Fifty years ago,. Now, .
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Building a paragraph
Classification

Sports have become more and more popular
in the world. For men,. For women, .
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Building a paragraph
Classification

Sports have become more and more popular
in the world. For young people,. For old people,
. For children, .
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Building a paragraph
Narration
Time Hero(es) and/or hero(ines) Place(s) Event

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Building a paragraph
Description

Verbs/adverbs/adjectives/onomatopoeia (imitative
words) etc.
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Building a paragraph
Argument

Grounds of argument---facts, examples,
references Argumentation
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Building a paragraph
Cause and Effect

Relationship Impartial
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Building a paragraph
Comparison and contrast

A1?B1 A2?B2 A3?B3 Point by point
A1, A2, A3 B1, B2, B3 Subject by subject
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