This document defines and describes different types of paragraphs. It discusses opening paragraphs that introduce a thesis, descriptive paragraphs that describe people, places or things, transitional paragraphs that signal a shift to a new idea, and cause and effect paragraphs that present a topic sentence followed by supporting details. It also covers interrogative paragraphs that use a question, conceptual paragraphs that define terms, narrative paragraphs that tell a story, comparison paragraphs that discuss similarities, closing paragraphs that offer context, and argumentative, chronological, enumeration, explanatory, expository, problem-solving, process, deductive, inductive, and concluding paragraphs.

1. Paragraph
types

2. Presented by:
Yesica Cardona
Natalia Garzon
Daniela Bejarano
Esmith Castaneda

4. opening paragraph
It introduce the text, raices the thesis
and seeks to find the author attention.
-Synthesis
-Interrogative phrase
-Anecdote
-Quote

5. descriptive paragraph
A descriptive paragraph
colorfully describes a person,
place or thing. It allows you to
imagine the way a person felt,
heard or saw the object or
location at a particular time
regardless if the writer explains
a real or imagined
circumstance.

6. Transitional Paragraph
A transitional paragraph is
a paragraph in an essay,
speech, composition, or
report that signals a shift
from one section, idea, or
approach to another.
Usually short ,

7. Cause and effect paragraphs
Cause and effect paragraphs
generally follow basic
paragraph format. That is,
they begin with a topic
sentence and this sentence is
followed by specific
supporting details.

8. Interrogative paragraph
An interrogative paragraph is
commonly a paragraph that uses a
question as an opening tactic.
Usually the question leads to a
statement of the main point of the
paragraph.

9. Conceptual paragraph
I have conceptual paragraph is the one that
gives the definition of something.. The ideas in a
conceptual paragraph contain a hierarchy and
are linked.
Conceptual paragraphs also refer to those in
which an author wants to explain some terms
that he will use in his work.

10. Narrative paragraph
A narrative paragraph tells the
story of an event, providing the
relevant details of when and
where the event occurred as well
as who was included and what
transpired.

11. Comparison paragraph
A paragraph which discusses the similarities
between two subtopics.

12. Closing paragraph
This paragraph offers a general sense
of the text, wants giving a good
memory to people, and sometimes
present conclutions and the text
motivates the reader to be a
participant in the ideas defended.

13. argumentative paragraph
Present a idea to convice
someone about the thing that
which affirms or refuses

14. chronological paragraph
This paragraph present the
temporary succession of an event.

15. enumeration
paragraph
Is a kind of inventoried, that
helping to people know the order
of the text or organizing phrase.

16. Explanatory
paragraph
Clarify the text of a way
more broad with details.

17. expository paragraph
Introduce information in a
way more general, and
organice.
Exact information that you
cant change.

18. paragraph of approach and resolution of problems
The first paragraph presents the explanation’s problem with details.
The second paragraph you going to see the solution’s problem.

19. sequence or process
paragraph
In this type of paragrph shows A
description of a series of events or a
process in any type of order.

20. deductive paragraph
The beggining is with a
principal idea and the building
is a generalization and after
with specific cases.

21. inductive paragraph
The main idea is at the
end.
The beggining is with
secondary ideas to arrive
thematic idea.

22. Concluding paragraph
In a conclusion paragraph, you
summarize what you’ve written about
in your paper. When you’re writing a
good conclusion paragraph,
you need to think about the main point
that you want to get across and be
sure it’s included.