The document defines a paragraph as a unit of writing used to express ideas clearly, categorized by types such as descriptive, narrative, argumentative, and expository. It further classifies paragraphs based on their content and logical structure, including types like conceptual, chronological, and comparative paragraphs. Various examples illustrate the purpose and organization of different paragraph types in writing.

1. PARAGRAPH TYPES
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2. WHAT IS A PARAGRAPH?
A paragraph is a unit of writing in a larger body of work. The purpose of a paragraph is to express a
speaker’s thoughts on a particular point in a clear way that is unique and specific to that paragraph.
When a new idea is introduced, generally, a writer will introduce a new paragraph.

3. Paragraphs are useful for the writing of texts: a) Descriptive
b) Narrative
c) Argumentative
d) Expositive
Paragraphs are classified according to: a) Their location
b) Their content
c) Their logical structure
PARAGRAPHS ARE:

4. PARAGRAPHS ACCORDING TO THEIR CONTENT
- Argumentative Paragraph: Its purpose is to convince the reader of what is affirmed or denied.
- Conceptual Paragraph: It is very useful in technical and scientific writings, it specifies the meaning of
document terms.
- Chronological Paragraph: It is useful to indicate several events or actions in the time.
- Enumeration Paragraph: Contains enumerator phrases that guide the reader.

5. PARAGRAPHS ACCORDING THEIR CONTENT
- Descriptive Paragraph: Facilitates the description of objects, people and places in a logical order.
- Explanatory Paragraph: Allows to clarify or broadly develop a theme.
- Expository Paragraph: Its purpose, is to present the information organized.
- Narrative Paragraph: Allows to expose in a temporary order the actions of the writing.

6. PARAGRAPHS ACCORDING THEIR LOGICAL STRUCTURE
- Comparative Paragraph: Expresses similarities or differences between two objects or phenomena.
- Cause- Effect Paragraph: This paragraph allows to indicate in the first place the facts and soon the
consequences of the same ones.
- Approach and resolution of a problem paragraph: In its first part it exposes the problem to treat, in
the second part offers the solution to the problem.

7. PARAGRAPHS ACCORDING TO THEIR LOGICAL STRUCTURE
- Sequence or process paragraph: Indicates a series of events or a specific process in a particular
order.
- Inductive Paragraph: They cite the main idea at the end of the text.
- Conclusion Paragraph: Allow you to close a topic or section.

8. REFERENCES
What is a paragraph? - http://writingexplained.org/grammar-dictionary/paragraph
Paragraphs
https://www.monmouth.edu/uploadedFiles/Resources_for_Writers/The_Writing_P
rocess/Paragraphs2013.pdf
Paragraph Writing - https://www.slideshare.net/lionnagaraju/paragraph-writing-
2226904
Paragraph Types - https://virtual.universidadean.edu.co/bbcswebdav/pid-408953-
dt-content-rid-4607972_1/courses/PADREITDFEAV/2017-C2-
AVA/g04_a03_o01.html