Short presentation tackling the types of paragraphs and their main features.

1. PARAGRAPH WRITING
Diego Alonso Castaño Agudelo, Lenguas Modernas
Enver prieto, Lenguas Modernas
Daniela Fernanda Estupiñan, Lenugas Modernas

2. MAIN FEATURES OF A PARAGRAPH
“Books don't change people; paragraphs do, sometimes even
sentences.”
― John Piper, A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in
All of Life
Organized and coherent arrangement of sentences which contains
main and supporting ideas.
Sentences
• Every word is a brick towards
constructing a sentence and the
latter, arranged in a determined
fashion, makes out a paragraph.
• A paragraph can serve many
purposes: explain, detail
information, compare, etc.
• A paragraph can be constructed
both basing its significance on
the purpose the autor seeks out
to accomplish as well as the
internal organization of the
sentences: spatial, chronological
or logical relevance.

3. INTERNAL CHARACTERISTICS
“As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I
developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and
sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become...”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
• Cohesiveness: How good the ideas relate
to each other.
• Coherence: How organizing the ideas
impacts the overall comprehension of the
text.
• Back up sentences and ideas: Use of the
wide extent of resources to improve
comprehension such as examples,
details, etc.
• Correct use of the grammatical and
syntactical structures: Adequate use of
the vocabulary and correction in setting
punctuation symbols.

4. THE MAIN TYPES OF PARAGRAPHS
“There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a sentence.”
― Roland Barthes, Image, Music, Text
This type of paragraph describes something
and shows the reader what a thing or a
person is like. It describes something with
words that allow the reader almost to "see"
what is being described. Descriptive
paragraphs can be artistic and may deviate
from grammatical norms of something or
someone.
The expository
paragraph
The narrative
paragraph
The persuasive
paragraph
There's a sequence of action or
there's a clear beginning,
middle, and end to the
paragraph. This topic usually
involves one main event,
adventure, scene, or happening
This type of paragraph explains something or
provides instructions. It could also describe a
process and move the reader step by step
through a method. This type of paragraph often
requires research. It needs to be written in a
logical sequence so the reader can follow the
ideas.
The descriptive
paragraph
This type of paragraph tries to get the reader
to accept a particular point of view or
understand the writer's position. This is the
type of paragraph that many teachers focus
on because it's useful when building an
argument. It often requires the collection of
facts and research.

5. OTHER TYPES OF PARAGRAPHS
“There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a sentence.”
― Roland Barthes, Image, Music, Text
Cause and effect
paragraph
Argumentative
paragraph
Deductive
paragraph
Inductive paragraph :
Explanation paragraph
A cause and effect paragraph analyzes
the causes or effects of a certain
situation. They begin with a topic
sentence and this sentence is followed
by specific supporting details.
Account of the events ocurred
to someone or narration of the
way an action unfolds. It can
be determined by the internal
(narration time) or external
(historical time) account on
time.
Chronological
paragraph
In this type of paragraph, you lead in
with a topic sentence (a claim),The
topic sentence is then developed in
the rest of the paragraph with
evidence and reasoning supporting
the initial claim.
This type of paragraph
throws small pieces of
information here and
there before coming to a
conclusion. Inductive
paragraphs are therefore
‘conclusion-oriented’
An argument paragraph
presents a point of view and
provides evidence for the
point of view taken.
An explanation paragraph
describes how something
works or is done and how or
why something happens.