Unit 2: Task 5 - Collaborative Work on Types of Paragraphs

 

ACADEMIC WRITING 551016A_363

Unit 2: Task 5 - Collaborative Work on Types of Paragraphs

 

 

INTRODUCTION

Paragraph is a set of sentences that usually develop an idea what are expressed in a main sentence. The paragraph is a very important concept in any text because thoughts are communicated in writing using related sentences. It is a significant and visual unity: develops a single complete idea, different from the other paragraphs, and it is marked graphically on the sheet with points and separate with blank spaces. These groups of sentences are separated in different parts of a text; the introduction, the conclusions, the arguments, etc.

The paragraphs are related to each other to develop a set of ideas. This is called text. Every paragraph develops an important idea, by relating them the central idea of the text. From the above, it is clear the importance of ideas (sentences) in a paragraph; they are organized in such a way that they convey an idea complete in a logical manner and according to the intention and function of the paragraph. 

What functions do paragraphs have within a text? Although each type of text contemplates particular characteristics, in general, the paragraphs that make up any text have functions specific. The first one is to introduce the reader to the topic what will be about. Second is to develop the ideas that support the issue and also there is the link (serve as transition) to the different aspects of the topic. Finally, there is also the function of expressing the conclusions that can be deduced of the explanation of the subject that has been about. 

Normally, the first and second paragraph of a text is responsible to introduce reader the central issue of the text. As to the transition paragraphs, these establish the relationships between the different parts of the matter being discussed, that is, link the different aspects of the text. Now, when you have finished exposing a topic or you have followed an argument, you get a group of ideas that come off everything demonstrated, and then we have the conclusion paragraph.

      

Paragraphs

 

Student’s Name	Type of Paragraph	Statement
NELFY CAROLINA VEGA	Descriptive https://vega-gracia.blogspot.com/2017/11/carolin-avega.html	a. “Writing in a daily basis is the most effective way to improve a writing skill.” ~Henry Carvajal
NEYDA ESLAVA	Narrative https://vega-gracia.blogspot.com/2017/11/neyda-eslava.html	b. “Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.” ~Sharon O'Brie
BELLANID ORTIZ	Persuasive https://vega-gracia.blogspot.com/2017/11/bellanid-ortiz.html	c. "Easy reading is damn hard writing." ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
JORGE ELIECER GIRALDO.	Expository. https://vega-gracia.blogspot.com/2017/11/jorge-eliecer-giraldo.html	d. “Writing is my time machine, takes me to the precisetime and place I belong.” ~Jeb Dickerson
YEISON ARIEL FRANCO	Argumentative https://vega-gracia.blogspot.com/2017/11/yeison-ariel-franco.html	e. “The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.” ~Anaïs Nin