Topic Sentences
Every paragraph needs a topic sentence.
The topic sentence is usually the first sentence of the paragraph. It gives the reader
an idea of what the paragraph is going to
be about.
The supporting
sentences need to be about the idea presented in the topic sentence. In a paragraph, every sentence should "belong".
Here is an example of
a proper paragraph with supporting sentences:
I had a wonderful summer. First, I started sleeping in every day. I would
then go swimming
with my friends.
I stayed up late watching
TV a lot, and I went to camp
for a week. I wished my summer
would never end!
What is the topic sentence? (Ask yourself what
the paragraph is about.) "I had a wonderful summer" is the topic sentence.
Everything else supports that idea. The final sentence is the concluding sentence. It sums up what
the author wants to communicate in the paragraph. "I wished my summer would
never end!".
Oraciones de asunto
Cada párrafo necesita una oración de
asunto. La oración de asunto es generalmente la primera oración del párrafo. Da
a lector una idea sobre de lo que va el párrafo a estar.
Las oraciones de soporte necesitan
estar sobre la idea presentada en la oración de asunto. En un párrafo, cada
oración si “pertenecer”.
Aquí está un ejemplo de un párrafo
apropiado con oraciones de soporte:
Tenía un verano maravilloso. Primero,
comencé a dormir en diario. Entonces iría a nadar con mis amigos. Permanecía
encima de la última TV que miraba mucho, y fui a acampar por una semana.
¡Deseaba que mi verano nunca terminara!
¿Cuál es la oración de asunto?
(Preguntarte sobre cuáles es el párrafo.) “tenía un verano maravilloso” soy la
oración de asunto. Todo ayudas que idea. La oración final es la oración que
concluye. Resume lo que desea el autor para comunicarse en el párrafo. “Deseaba
que mi verano nunca terminara!”.
Supporting Details
Supporting details
are facts and ideas that explain the main idea of a paragraph. They include key details
and minor details. Key details
are those that directly explain the main idea, while minor details are those that add
information, offer an example, or
further explain one of the key
details.
Los detalles de soporte son los
hechos y las ideas que explican la idea principal de un párrafo. Incluyen los
detalles dominantes y los detalles de menor importancia. Los detalles
dominantes son los que explican directamente la idea principal, mientras que
los detalles de menor importancia son los que agregan la información, ofrecen
un ejemplo, o explican más lejos uno de los detalles dominantes.
Closing Sentence
What is the closing sentence?
The closing
sentence is the last sentence in a paragraph.
What does it do?
It restates
the main idea of your paragraph.
How do I write
one?
Restate the main
idea of the paragraph using different words.
Example:
There are three reasons why Canada
is one of
the best countries in the world.
First, Canada has an excellent health
care system. All Canadians have
access to medical services at a reasonable
price. Second, Canada has a high standard of education.
Students are taught by well-trained teachers
and are encouraged to continue studying
at university. Finally, Canada's cities are clean and efficiently managed. Canadian cities have many
parks and lots of space
for people to live. As a result,
Canada is a desirable place to live.
Oración de cierre
¿Cuál es la oración de cierre?
La oración de cierre es la oración
pasada en un párrafo.
¿Qué hace?
Expone la idea en forma modificada
principal de tu párrafo.
¿Cómo escribo uno?
Exponer la idea en forma modificada
principal del párrafo usando diversas palabras.
Ejemplo:
Hay tres razones por las que Canadá
es uno de los mejores países del mundo. Primero, Canadá tiene un sistema
excelente del cuidado médico. Todos los canadienses tienen acceso a los
servicios médicos en un precio razonable. En segundo lugar, Canadá tiene una mayor nivel de la educación. Se animados a los
estudiantes son enseñados por los profesores bien ensen$ados
y que continúen estudiando en la universidad. Finalmente, las ciudades de
Canadá son limpias y manejadas eficientemente. Las ciudades canadienses tienen
muchos parques y porciones de espacio para que la gente viva. Consecuentemente,
Canadá es un lugar deseable a vivir.
Definition: A definition
is a statement of the meaning of a term, word
or phrase. The term to be defined
is known as the definiendum (Latin: that which is
to be defined). The words which define it are known as the definiens (Latin: that which is
doing the defining).
Classification
The act of distributing things into classes
or categories of the same type . The arrangement of knowledge into specific groups or systems.
Description
For the linguistics
term, see Prescription and description. For the scientific research term, see Scientific
method.
A description
consists of an enumeration of the quantitative and qualitative parameters which seek to provide
a definition of some thing, such
as what that thing looks like,
sounds like, or feels like,
distinguishing one state from another
and general characteristics
commonly noticed which in popular culture define or
distinguish something. It can represent subtle differences in states. A complete description is created and
used in scientific
disciplines as technical terminology.
It may be representable as a set
or vector of qualities. Description is the product of thought bounded
by beginnings, endings, context, perspective, similarities, differences and, when applied,
interpretation.
Compare and Contrast
If you
compare two things you tell how they
are alike. If you contrast two
things you tell how they are different. If you
compare and contrast two things you
tell how they are alike and how they
are different.
It is important to organize
your thoughts and information before you do so. Here are two different
ways to organize
information. As an example, we will
look at the Smilodon, and the Caribou - two animals
that lived during the Ice Ages.
(a)
My
hometown: San Carlos is the State Capital Cojedes. Located in center of
Venezuela, it is a warm and small
city, but her people are likeable and worker.
It is a city
with a pretty history, with great
farming potential and tourist and
in her the independence of Venezuela began.
A place you would
like to travel
to: I would like
to visit the Roques, because I like to visit the tourist
sites of my country and because it is
an extraordinary place, with an enormous
extension of calm sea, with presence of lagoons,
keys, and sand beaches white
(of coralline origin) and crystalline
waters of incredible colors.
Another topic of your own chossing: At the present time I am reading the titled book the Intermitencias of the death of the awarded
writer Jose Saramago. Of this
author already it had read
two previous books: Test on
the blindness and the gospel according to Jesus Christ.
I wanted to read this book because it hit the name and the summary to me
that I read. Definitively Saramago is an author who catches to the reader in a
fantastic world but that at the same time makes him imagine as would be if
everything what writes turned in fact.
(b) Choose one of the above topics
and write ONE complete paragraph about it. You should use a good topic sentence
and adequately detailed supporting sentences. You do not have to include a
concluding sentence if you do not wish to do so.
According
to the investigator Jose Antonio Borjas, the name of Cojedes, it is attributed
to the river of he himself name, is of Caribbean origin and it comes from two
voices: COA, that means town and HERI, that mean cooked pots. Being able to
deduce that Cojedes, in Caribbean language, means ceramics town. In this
territory they inhabited diverse indigenous tribes: the Caribbean ones, the
Achaguas, the Gayones, the Güires, the Guaiqueríes, the Taparitas, the
Tamanacos, among others. Nevertheless, the tribes who left their indelible
track in the zone were: the Chirgua, the Tinapun, the Pacaragua, the Tucuragua,
the Macapo, the Tinaco, the Paraima.
Writing Practice
Exercise Nº 2
Write Paragraphs:
(a) One Definition paragraph of at
least seven sentences
Soccer
(denominated officially soccer associate) is the more popular sport by
equipment of the world, as much with respect to the number of spectators like a
the number of active participants. The governing organism of fùtbol is the
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). In many parts of the
world, specially in Europe, South America and Africa, soccer is more than a
game: it is a life style…
In
principle, I would say that soccer is a not only social phenomenon, but daily;
that is, it is a phenomenon that is every day in all the corners of the
society. And for that reason same, by that routine character, one becomes a
cultural fact, since culture is what we do every day, or if you prefer it, the
daily thing creates a culture. However, in any case, it is difficult to define
a as plural reality as soccer. In the first place, because it is put under
perspective, an individual and intransferible situation that as soon as it is
possible to be communicated and that constitutes a right that we have like
people, a right to watch the things from different points of view. And
perspective happiness is not an epilogue, is not a end, is not a verdict, but
rather a respectful position towards which it judges. In fact, by all it is
known that there is much people whose perspective is changing in accordance
with a factor with an enormous importance: results, so, being this as I say,
the subjectivity is so that it becomes the denominator common of any sport in
general and, in special, of soccer.
(b) One Classification paragraph with
seven or more sentences.
Taking
care of the productive process of the company, several classes of existence can
be distinguished. This criterion is the one that has followed the PGC, and is
the one that is going away to expose and to explain. It is necessary to notice
that, for one better understanding, examples of all the existence referred to
the alluded to productive process are mentioned.
Thus,
the following types of existence can be catalogued:
•
Commercial Existence, also known like merchandises. Transformation nor
elaboration are characterized so that the company sells such and as it acquired
them, without some. Thus, if English comfortable the indicated company purchase
to an antique dealer and sells in the original form in which it acquired them,
without transformation some, these would be catalogued like merchandises.
•
Raw materials. They are those that are used in the manufacture of the product
to which the company is dedicated, reason why they are elaborated or they transformed.
Thus, the wood could be indicated.
•
Other supplyings. They are existence that does not have the consideration of
raw materials, but that is used incessantly, to the being essential in the
accomplishment of the productive process. Within these, they are possible to be
mentioned: the fuels that are consumed so that certain machines work, the
packing that surround the transported furniture to the being, the locks of the
closets, etc.
•
Products in course. To the closing of the exercise, it can have products that
are in phase of formation or transformation in a determined center of activity,
these are the products in course or phase of manufacture. The possibility does
not fit of selling them. They would be possible to be indicated: the wood that
are being sawn, the wood plates not finished or the skeletons of furniture that
is being varnished.
•
Half-finished Products. Are products made by the company, but that still are
pending of elaboration, incorporation or transformation to obtain wished
products. Habitually, these are not destined on sale, but this circumstance can
occur. Examples of this category of existence would be: the wood plates and the
skeletons of furniture.
•
Finished Products. They are made by the company, dedicating the all his efforts
to his obtaining, since the sale of these - to the consumers or other companies
it constitutes the object of the enterprise activity. In the case that occupies
to us, they would be the furniture.
(c) One Description paragraph with
seven or more sentences.
To
the bottom of the seat the City council rose, a encalado building, with a long
balcony in first stage and windows put grates on in the ground floor. Next to
the stone gangway, in golden letters, inscription city hall could be read.
The
encaladas facades of twelve houses of two floors closed the seat, with their
balconies and windows filled with geraniums and claveles. In the illuminated
balconies, and next to the doors of the houses, there were groups of people of
all the ages, with expression attempt and deluded.
The
glances of all the town went towards tablado that had raised in center of the
seat, in front of the City council. On the tablado one, and to the tenuous
light of the lampposts, rondalla animated with its music the humid and warm
night of July. Seated next to the tablado one, the children listened
embelesados. In the stop the stars shone.
(d) One Comparison paragraph with
seven or more sentences.
Saskia
Sassen sample that the dynamics of the economic development in Germany and the
USA between 1970 and 1991 were radically different. While in the USA a clear
return could be observed an extensive growth, that cannot in any case of
affirming with respect to Germany. In
(e) One constract paragraph with
seven or more senetnces.
The
baseball is the sport of equipment that privileges the individual
responsibility more, with its formidable duel between pitcher and batter. No
other sport of equipment offers east permanent confrontation between
individuals. The resistance between the nature of the american football and the
one of the baseball corresponds with the reaction of the Latin American masses
before those sports.
The
american football is based on the collective organization and the massive and
instantaneous application of the force. One is he himself type of mentality
that nourishes to the military doctrine of the United States. In this sense,
the american football is equivalent to the Pentagon. The american football has
a military internal code: the individual ability is to the service of the
collective force.
The
baseball, however, is a duel of ability and talent between individuals with
social responsibility: its internal logic is political. Pitcher changes its
launching according to the personality of the batter, tries to read its
thought, like in a chess game. The batter, as well, must evaluate in a fraction
of second the intentions of the thrower and to react consequently.
He
is not worth in this case the comparison with the penitentiary in soccer of
soccer: if the doorman remains in his line, as he orders the rule, their
possibilities of containing fired affluent are insignificant.
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