WRITING A PARAGRAPGH

To beginners, writing – specifically writing a paragraph – is something confusing. Writing demands us to be imaginative. We have to be able to express our thoughts or ideas in it. Not to mention that our writing should be grammatically eligible.

In a classroom activity, a teacher usually gives students a task of writing a paragraph in certain number of words (75, or 100 words). This indirectly affects students in the way they develop the paragraph since there are at least two streams working in the brain: thinking of how to adopt correct grammar rules and how to develop the paragraph adequately.

The following tips hopefully can help you have strategy of how to write a paragraph effectively. A paragraph, theoretically, has two elements in it: a topic sentence and supporting sentences. The topic sentence functions as the anchor about what all supporting sentences describe. The supporting sentences, on the other hand, are to support the topic sentence by describing, explaining or arguing it.

Let’s say, we want to write about “Our City”. Next after we’ve got the topic, we have to choose what type of paragraph we want to write it in: narrative, argumentative, expository, or descriptive.
1.Narrative is a paragraph which is written in a story-telling way in supporting the topic sentence.
2.Argumentative is a paragraph developed by giving our arguments or reasons to the chosen topic sentence.
3.Expository is a paragraph developed by exposing factual data (number of population, the founding year, etc.) that support the topic sentence.
4.Descriptive is a paragraph developed by describing the topic sentence with detail explanation, examples or definition.
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