Paragraph development; Unity, Order and Emphasis.

1. Order

3. UNITY
o A unified paragraph is simply one in which the ideas all contribute toward the
development of a topic sentence. It refers to the extent to which all of the ideas
contained within a given paragraph "hang together" in a way that is easy for the
reader to understand.
oUnity in the paragraph means singleness of subject. All the sentences within the
paragraph should focus on the topic sentence.

4. Later in the dusky streets I walked among the Navajo camps,
past the doorways of the town, from which came the good
smells of cooking, the festive sounds of music, laughter, and
talk. The campfires rippled in the crisp wind that arose with
evening and set a soft yellow glow on the ground, low on the
adobe walls.
A natural building material used for several thousand years, adobe is
composed of sand and straw, which is shaped into bricks on wooden
fMraumttoens asinzdz leddri eadn din stmheo kseudn .above the fires; fat dripped into the
flames; there were great black pots of strong coffee and buckets full
of fried bread; dogs crouched on the rim of the light, the many circles
of light; and old men sat hunched in their blankets on the ground, in
the cold shadows, smoking. . . . Long into the night the fires cast a
glare over the town, and I could hear the singing, until it seemed that
one by one the voices fell away, and one remained, and then there
was none. On the very edge of sleep I heard coyotes in the hills.
- The Names: A Memoir, by N. Scott Momaday

5. Order
oRefers primarily to the movement of sequence of sentences in the paragraph. It is the way you organize
your supporting sentences.
Pattern:
1. From one time to the next
2. From one space to an adjoining space
3. From particular statements to a general statement or conclusion
4. From a general statement to particular statements
5. From question to answer, from cause and effect, or from effect to cause.

6. •Events are narrated in the order in which they occur.
This is also the order of nature, the most commonly
order to follow.
•Discuss facts in the order in which they occur.
•Used in explaining process, in writing historical events
or writing a story.
•Use transitional expression- first, past, future, now,
once, soon, then, and finally,

7. "Put your eggs in a saucepan and cover them with
about one-half inch cold water. Heat the pan until
the water is simmering and cook like this for seven
minutes, using a timer. As soon as the timer dings
put the saucepan into the sink and turn on the cold
tap, allowing the water to overspill. It doesn't need to
be galloping; a steady but vigorous flow will do. After
a minute turn off the tap and leave the eggs in the
cold water for another couple of minutes, or until
they are cold enough to hold comfortably. When the
time's up, your eggs will be cooked, and with no soft
center remaining.” -Bunty Cutler, How to Boil
an Egg Like a Pro

8. •This is used to describe what you see. Your description
would follow the movement of the eyes either from right to
left, from top to bottom, from what is far to what is near or
vise-verse, from the most conspicuous to the least
conspicuous.
•Describe at one specific point and moves on in an specific
direction.
- nearest to the farthest; bottom to top; top to bottom,
left to right; right to right.
•To indicate position:
-from, here, inside, in front of, next to, on, over,
under, to, and beyond.

9. In front of them was the central valley. Across the valley,
on the next mountain, dark belted pines climbed toward
the sky. To the right, the clustered lights of the village
spread thinner, becoming a line along the valley floor and
finally disappearing in the distance. Beyond either end of
the valley there was faint, far glow of lights from the
towns.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, John Fox, Jr.

10. •Deductive Method:
-General to specific
-The topic sentence, which is general, is followed
with specific reasons, examples, facts, explanations,
comparison and details that support the topic sentence.
•Inductive Method:
-Specific to gener al
-Supporting details to topic sentence.

11. • A survey was conducted to find any competitive products on the
australian market that were similar to all the proposed designs. Surveys
were conducted at hardware stores, bathroom fixture stores, and
pharmacies. These provided information about five competitive products,
none of which could possibly result in patent breaches. Three of these
competitive products enable disease, or age-affected people to operate
indoor house taps, hence these products do not solve the design
problem. The fourth product does aim to solve the design problem, but it
does so from a different angle. The fifth competitive product also aims to
provide ease of operation, is similar to design c, but is intended for indoor
use. -Surveys
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12. •Least important detail and move on to the most important one at the
end of the paragraph.
•Helps connect the result of something with events or the facts that
preceeds it.

13. The company has a clearly laid out hierarchy. All major
decisions go through the president, who controls the entire
operation, but most daily decisions go to the board.
Beneath the board members are the regional managers,
who oversee the branch managers, who run each local
branch.
Power Order
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patterns-of-organization/order-of-importance/

14. •Measures one subject against another subject. The
contrasted details are given to illustrate the difference
between the subjects.

15. My hometown and my College town have several things
in common. First, both are small urban communities. For
example, my hometown, Gridlock, has a population of only
about 10,000 people. Similarly, my college town,
Subnormal, consists of about 11,000 local residents. This
population swells to 15,000 people when the college
students are attending classes. A second way in which
these two towns are similar is that they are both located
in rural areas. Gridlock is surrounded by many acres of
farmland which is devoted mainly to growing corn and
soybeans. In the same way, Subnormal lies in the center
of farmland which is used to raise hogs and cattle. Thirdly,
both of these towns are similar in that both contain college
campuses. Gridlock, for example, is home to Neutron
College, which is famous for its Agricultural Economics
program as well as for its annual Corn-Watching Festival
-Comparison Essay, F. Scott Walters

16. • Explain words and ideas in a clear fashion.

17. Advice is a noun that means an opinion or
recommendation: My advice to you is to get a second
opinion. Advice is a verb that means to inform or
recommend: I would advice you to get a second opinion.

18. EmphASIs
oEmphasis may be secured be allocating the appropriate amount of space to the
different parts of a composition. this means that you should devote a greater
amount of space to the major material and a relatively small share of the entire
space to the subordinate but functional material.

19. •Emphasis may be secured by allocating the appropriate
amount of space to the different parts of a composition.
This is means that you should devote a greater amount
of space to the major material and relatively small
share of the entire space to the subordinate but
functional material.
•The beginning, though, essential should be short; the
body should constitute the vital part of the composition;
and the conclusion should merely complete the body.

20. With capitalism’s evolution, a decreasing proportion
of the value produced is constituted of labor
directly employed, an increasing proportion from
labor already concretized in capital goods, since
mechanization of production is the fundamental
means to increasing economic efficiency, where
capital goods contribute to the value of a product
to the extent they are consumed in its production.

21. •A judicial repetition of an important point in several point
in several places in the composition will help achieve
emphasis. But unnecessary repetition will make the
theme verbose and dull.
•The paragraph should be indeed with a relevant
statement and not with minor detail.

22. war by land, sea, and air. War with all our might and with
all the strength God has given us, and to wage war
against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark
and the lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our
policy.
“You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in
one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs- victory in spite
of all the terrors- victory, however hard and long the road
may be, for without victory there is no survival. Let that
be realized. No survival for the Bristish Empire has stood
for, no survival for the urge, the impulse of the ages, that
mankind shall move forward towards his goal.”
-Winston Churchill, “Blood, Sweat,
and Tears”

23. •A good composition usually with a strong
statement or a suggestion of the central idea and
ends on an even stronger note.

24. sounds, as if the shell were remembering and repeating to
itself the murmurs of its ocean home. The child's face
filled with wonder as he listened. Here in the little shell,
apparently, was a voice from another world, and he
listened with delight to its mystery and music. Then came
the man, explaining that the child heard nothing strange;
that the pearly curves of the shell simply caught a
multitude of sounds too faint for human ears, and filled
the glimmering hollows with the murmur of innumerable
echoes. It was not a new world, but only the unnoticed
harmony of the old that had aroused the child's wonder.
- W. J. Long, "English literature."

26. References:
http://grammar.about.com/od/developingparagraphs/a/parunity.htm
http://grammar.about.com/od/c/g/Chronological-Order.htm
http://primaryliteracy1.wikispaces.com/file/view/CYCLICAL%20MAP.bmp/135871505/CYCLICAL
%20MAP.bmp
owl.english.purdue.edu
http://unilearning.uow.edu.au/effective/3b.html
http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/text-structure/patterns-of-organization/order-of-importance/
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/fwalters/compcont.html