Writing a
Good Paragraph
Focus on academic writing, not creative,
not business
How to write a good answer in a school
class
Writing well is big challenge. Good
writing is very difficult.
It comes with lots of practice over
months, years.
No replacement for hard practice- with
concentration and focus.
PROCESS – What to do?
Why did the boys not harvest the
pheasants?
PREWRITING- Plan
1. Analyze the topic – Read it
carefully, each word
2. Generate some ideas
3-4 ideas is enough
3. Organize TIME SPACE IMPORTANCE
WRITING- sentences
4. Rough copy
Topic sentence that addresses the topic.
Why did the boys not harvest the
pheasants?
Topic sentence – address that in the
first sentence usually.
LINKED to the question/writing prompt
HINT: Use some of the vocab in the
writing prompt.
Why didn’t
the boys harvest the pheasants?
SIMPLE TOPIC SENTENCES: The boys did not
harvest the pheasants for three reasons.
MORE SOPHISTICATED: The boys did not
harvest the pheasants because they felt empathy for them.
PLOT SUMMARY
It was a bad storm. There was lots of
rain. The boys went out to get the birds. XXX
GOOD BASIC TOPIC SENTENCE: The boys
didn’t harvest the pheasants for several reasons.
HINT: Use synonyms for the important
words
didn’t
– unable, couldn’t, never, refused, miss, fail?
boys
– males, lads, guys, little men, teens
harvest
– hunt, collect, kill, take, gather, catch, prey on
pheasants
– birds, animals, wild birds, game birds
HIGHER LEVEL TOPIC SENTENCE: The young
boys were unable to kill the wild birds because they felt empathy for them.
3-4 points
1.
2.
3.
ORGANIZATION!!
TIME, SPACE, IMPORTANCE
Sentences!! Sentences are first
priority.
Really struggling with sentences.
Every sentence has to be SIMPLE,
COMPOUND, COMPLEX
DAILY PRACTICE!
4. Edit, fix up grammar, vt, vf, sp,
punc
FORMAT
Topic sentence
point
points
points
Concluding sentence
-double-space
-indent
-pen
-margins
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