“ How to Write a Good Paragraph ”
A paragraph is usually a block of sentences set off by
spacing of indentation at the beginning. Though commonly part of an essay, it
can and sometimes does serve as an essay in its own right.
Necessary Elements of writing a paragraph:
1) Cohesion : The
property of unity in a written text or a segment of spoken discourse that stems
from links among its surface elements, as when words in one sentence are
repeated in another.
2) Coherence: The
quality of being logical and consistent.
Cohesion Techniques of paragraphs’: The
words by whom cohesion is achieved are known as cohesive devices.
Kinds of Cohesive devices:
1.
Connectors: and, but, moreover, therefore
etc.
2.
References backward and forward : For
Examples—
Look at the man. He wears a strange dress.
( ‘He’ refers back to ‘ the man’)
Look at him. The man wears a strange dress.
(‘him’ refers forward to ‘the man’)
3. Substitution
or replacement of one item by another :
A : You must work out the sum
B : Ok. I’ll do it. ( Here ‘do’ replaces ‘work
out’
4. Ellipses or
leaving out an item :
A : Have
you been swimming ?
B : Yes, I have ( ‘been swimming’ is omitted )
5. Lexical
cohesion :
Bangladesh was severely hit by the depression.
The country was on the verge of ruin. (Here “ “The Country” is related to
Brazil )
Functions of the sentences in a paragraph: There
are five sentence of writing a paragraph ----
1)
Topic introducer: It is used at the very
beginning of a paragraph. It’s function is to provide a comprehensive statement.
2)
Topic sentence : It gives specific
contextual information of a paragraph
3)
Developers: They (sentences) are used
to make the statements of a paragraph meaningful.
4)
Context modulator: It’s a sentence that
connects two groups of ideas in a paragraph.
5)
Restatement : It represents the ideas of
a topic sentence in different ways and it is termed as conclusion.
“Reading
Makes a Full Man”
1.Reading
good books makes a complete man in respect of knowledge and wisdom.2)Good books
are a store house of knowledge and wisdom.3) Whoever has the key can enter this
store-house. 4) By key we mean the ability to read. 5) He who can read good
books stores his mind with noble thoughts of the great thinkers of the world,
present and past. 6) A man can, of course , learn many things from experience.
7) But such a man’s mind remains blank to what mankind has thought and done. 8)
He who reads good books widely and judiciously has his mind full with
knowledge. 9)To sum up it is to say that reading makes a full man.
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