The document discusses the PEEEL structure for writing paragraphs. It explains the components as: Point, Explanation/Elaboration, Evidence, Evaluation/Elaboration, and Link. It then provides an example paragraph analyzing the question "Should any limits be placed upon media freedom?" The paragraph makes the point that people desire media freedom to expose truths. It provides evidence from the Watergate scandal uncovered by journalists Woodward and Bernstein. It evaluates that media freedom allows the press to act as a watchdog on government and citizens have a right to know what their government is doing.

1. Using the PEEEL Structure

2. How familiar are you with the PEEEL structure?
Point: Should be embedded in your Topic
Sentence
Explanation/ Elaboration: Why do you make this Point?
Evidence: Can be Specific or General
Evaluation/ Elaboration: Are there any assumptions that need to
be challenged? Does your Evidence
necessarily prove your Point?
Link: Important! Make the links between your
Evidence and your Topic Sentence, and the
link between the paragraph and your Stand.

3. Example
Should any limits be placed upon media freedom?
Question Analysis:
Subject: Censorship of the media
Key Terms:
Assumption:
Contention:
Context:

4. Should any limits be placed upon media freedom?
Question Analysis:
Subject: Censorship of the media
Key Terms: ‘Should’: Obligation of the regulating
authorities to censor? Is freedom of
speech a fundamental human right?
‘Any limits’: Any
regulation/censorship
Assumption:
Contention:
Context:

5. Should any limits be placed upon media freedom?
Question Analysis:
Subject: Censorship of the media
Key Terms: ‘Should’: Obligation of the regulating
authorities to censor? Is freedom of speech a
fundamental human right?
‘Any limits’: Any regulation/ censorship
Assumption: That no limits should be placed upon
media
Contention:
Context:

6. Should any limits be placed upon media freedom?
Question Analysis:
Subject: Censorship of the media
Key Terms: ‘Should’: Obligation of the regulating
authorities to censor? Moral rights to
a allow expression of free speech?
‘Any limits’: Any regulation/ censorship
Assumption: That no limits should be placed upon
media freedom
Contention: Whether or not the media should be
completely free and uncensored/ regulated
Context:

7. Should any limits be placed upon media freedom?
Question Analysis:
Subject: Censorship of the media
Key Terms: ‘Should’: Obligation of the regulating
authorities to censor? Moral rights to
a allow expression of free speech?
‘Any limits’: Any regulation/ censorship
Assumption: That no limits should be placed upon
media freedom
Contention: Whether or not the media should be
completely free and uncensored/ regulated
Context: Not specified

8. Should any limits be placed upon media freedom?
• It is understandable that people desire media freedom as
it allows journalists to have the freedom and ability to
expose the truths objectively.
Topic
Sentence
Point

9. Should any limits be placed upon media freedom?
• It is understandable that people desire media freedom as
it allows journalists to have the freedom and ability to
expose the truths objectively.
• These are truths that may be deliberately kept away from
public scrutiny because a government wishes to portray
itself in a good light.
Topic
Sentence
Explanation
of Point

10. Should any limits be placed upon media freedom?
• It is understandable that people desire media freedom as it
allows journalists to have the freedom and ability to
expose the truths objectively.
• These are truths that may be deliberately kept away from
public scrutiny because a government wishes to portray
itself in a good light.
• Without journalistic freedom, journalists such as Bob
Woodward and Carl Bernstein, would have never been
able to expose the Watergate scandal that was concealed
by President Richard Nixon’s staff. Citizens of the United
States would not have known that they had elected a
fraudulent liar as their President, had they not known
about the Watergate scandal.
Topic
Sentence
(Point)
Explanation
of Point
Evidence

11. Should any limits be placed upon media freedom?
• It is understandable that people desire media freedom as it allows
journalists to have the freedom and ability to expose the truths
objectively.
• These are truths that may be deliberately kept away from public
scrutiny because a government wishes to portray itself in a good
light.
• Without journalistic freedom, journalists such as Bob
Woodward and Carl Bernstein, would have never been able
to expose the Watergate scandal that was concealed by
President Richard Nixon’s staff. Citizens of the United States
would not have known that they had elected a fraudulent liar
as their President, had they not known about the Watergate
scandal.
• People have the right to know about the governments are
doing. This media freedom allows the press to function as a
political watchdog, thus keeping the government in check.
Topic
Sentence
(Point)
Explanation of
Point
Evidence
Evaluation

12. Should any limits be placed upon media freedom?
• It is understandable that people desire media freedom as it allows
journalists to have the freedom and ability to expose the truths objectively.
• These are truths that may be deliberately kept away from public scrutiny
because a government wishes to portray itself in a good light.
• Without journalistic freedom, journalists such as Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein, would have never been able to expose the Watergate scandal that
was concealed by President Richard Nixon’s staff. Citizens of the United
States would not have known that they had elected a fraudulent liar as their
President, had they not known about the Watergate scandal.
• People have the right to know about the governments are doing. This media
freedom allows the press to function as a political watchdog, thus keeping
the government in check.
• This important role played by the media should thus
not be undermined by limitations and government
censorship.
Topic Sentence
(Point)
Explanation of
Point
Evidence
Evaluation
Linking
Sentence

13. Get the picture?