2. Types of Paragraph
DEPENDING ON YOUR LOCATION
• Opening Paragraph:
This is where you enter the text. Their role is crucial, as the author
presents the problem posed by the thesis, draws the reader's interest, etc.
Sometimes it is desirable to leave this paragraph to write it at the end.
• Summary: In her thesis topic or summarized text. Often the title is
developed.
• Phrase or interrogative sentences: This phrase raises the problem
that developed subsequent text.
• Trivia: The introduction includes a story, a story whose role is to
engage and involve the reader, used to put on record on the issue.
• Quote: You can use quotes as long as they relate to the subject
matter hereof.
3. Types of Paragraph
• Paragraph Transition:
Is used to change the subject, a bridge to the rest of the text
or to move from one part to another. Use expressions such as
consequently, therefore, however, despite the above, while, finally,
below, etc.
• Closing Statement:
Summarize the overall meaning of the text, giving full meaning
round it, and tries to leave a good memory in the reader. Some may
offer conclusions on the topic, offer suggestions or motivate the
reader to join the ideas defended by the author. It has the same type
as the opening paragraph, in this case to summarize or recall the gist
of the text.
4. Types of Paragraph
ACCORDING TO ITS CONTENT:
• Supporting paragraph:
It presents an idea to convince someone of what is affirmed or
denied
• Conceptual Paragraph or definition:
To clarify the meaning of a term or close a thought that will be
used later. Without these conceptual definitions, the reader will not
understand the author's ideas. So essential in the writing of technical
and scientific.
• Chronological paragraph:
Those who relate the temporal sequence of an event.
5. Types of Paragraph
• Paragraph numbering:
It has an organizer that helps the sentence indicating spatial text
reader. This phrase can be prefixed or postponed to an inventory of
properties that refer to the same object, idea, or fact. The most common
mistakes are: organizing and omit the phrase list, repeat the items in the list,
sort items indiscriminately and use a different syntactic structure in the items
listed.
• Descriptive paragraph:
Describe the object, person, idea or situation that you are going to
talk. Describing, follow a logical order, going from the general to the
particular, from the outer to the inner; if the description is a temporal
process, you can go from past to present and vice versa, and so on.
• Explanatory paragraph:
It serves to clarify or develop more fully the topic being presented
6. Types of Paragraph
• Expository paragraph:
• This paragraph presents some organized information, for
example: “Chicken is an animal that belong bird´s group. They have
wings, however they almost can not to fly; just flutter. Chicken are
oviparous animals, it mean, they reproduce by eggs”.
• Narrative paragraph:
This paragraph exposed an order about some event or action.
It begins telling a story or a novel. Normally it is used in literature.
7. Types of Paragraph
ACCORDING TO ITS LOGIC STRUCTURE:
• Comparative paragraph
This paragraph presents differences or similarity between two object
or phenomena, for example: “Acapulco and Cancun are two Mexican destinies
that are heavenly and every year to attract millions of tourists by its beautiful
beaches, however, both of them are very different, because Cancun is in the
Caribbean ocean while Acapulco is in the pacific ocean”.
• Paragraph causal:
This paragraph presents a following fact by the consequences from it
has resulted, for example, “there are many causes of the Colombian violence,
including, market social and economic inequalities, low label education in
most of the population, rising unemployment, no familiar unity,
decomposition of youth by drugs and lost traditional values”.
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8. Types of Paragraph
ACCORDING TO ITS LOGIC STRUCTURE:
• Paragraph approach and solving problem
This paragraph presents two parts: the first one, the problem and
the second one, the solution to the problem, for example: “One of the
problems that actual government is facing is the school failure; the students
repeat several times the same grade or drop out their studies. One of the
causes is the family economic need that forces the young people to work
leaving a few or nothing time for to study.
Scholarships are a possible solution to the problem; however, its execution
can not to be discriminate, or use as an electoral weapon, but in order to
support study and make the next young generation are better prepared”.
• Sequence paragraph:
This paragraph presents events range in determinate order, for example,
cooking recipe.
9. Types of Paragraph
ACCORDING TO ITS LOGIC STRUCTURE:
• Deductive Paragraph:
Home to home idea. For its construction it begins of the
generalization and finally specific cases, for example: “It hear a sound at
middle night. He wakes up behind his bark´s dog and he hear the principal
door to close sharply. He trembled. Steps approaching to his
bedroom…Joaquin lived alone: Someone had enter in his house at the middle
night and he was in danger”.
• Inductive Paragraph :
Main idea at the end. It begins with phrases that express secondary
ideas to get a generalization, or thematic idea, like a conclusion of what it
said, for example: “Life is simplest we think. My best friend believes in that,
and I began to think about it, when an afternoon I was watching t.v a cruel
scene about a woman who lost everything; I reconsider about this idea
shaming myself”.
