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- 1. TYPES OF PARAGRAPHS Isabella Rico Laura JessicaAlejandra Siabato Jacob Ramirez
- 2. What is aparagraph… ■ It’s an essential part or unit of the organization of ideas ■ It’s compose by different type of sentences ■ It’s developed by unity and coherence – Common sense between sentences ■ Paragraphs difference themselves according to developing topic ■ Sentences of the paragraphs are connected by linkers
- 3. Types of paragraphs… ■Descriptive ■ Narrative ■ Argumentative ■ Expository Persuasive Chronological List paragraph Explanatory
- 4. Descriptive… ■ It wantsto provide specific details about the five senses ■ Brings the readers mind the object, place, person or situation that the writer is talking about ■ It follows a logical order “The widows house has a big black roof with a lot of translucent windows that shows her expensive furniture and is surrounded by a big golden gate, definitely the most terrifying house I’ve ever seen”
- 5. Narrative… ■ It couldbe about real or unreal (fantasy) situations ■ It’s wants to narrate and explain how situations happens ■ Narrative paragraph has some elements – story teller ( narrator ) – Characters – Time – Place – The action
- 6. Argumentative ■ ItWants tocreate a support to the writer’s ideas though arguments and solid information about an specific topic ■ An argumentative paragraph it’s design to provide positive or negative reasons to the readers about an specific situations, person, or objects ■ It is intended to protect or attack the idea of the story writer. “Wolves are the one of the most interesting animals in the world because of their strange nature, habits and behaviors in comparison of other animals, a good example of that is the loyalty with the crew and the way how it works”
- 7. Expository… Explanation ■ An expositoryparagraph wants to show: – An explanation of a situation or idea – Directions – Instructions ■ It wants to talk about something that happens ■ It gives specific details about things and facts Structure ■ It has a topic sentence ■ A supporting sentence ■ It follows a logical sequence
- 8. Persuasive… Explanation…. ■ Persuasive textare used not to express literally writers position ■ It is to express the benefits and good points about his or her believes or position to change readers mind and invite them to take an action Structure ■ Introduction ■ Tittle ■ Strong language ■ Opinion ■ Reasons ■ Arguments
- 9. Chronological ■ Wants tonarrate the order that things are developed or in which order things happen ■ It could be useful to describe how to reach a goal following specific steps “First Pepito woke up at 6:00 am, after that he took his breakfast quickly because he was late for the school, he took the bus at 7:30, he had just fifteen minutes to arrive because classes starts at 7:45. Next arrived, Pepito had to state outside of his classroom when he arrive just 15 minutes late, and that’s the reason why he walked back to home lonely and crying to arrive there at 10:00 am to sleep and wait to repeat the same story the next day.”
- 10. List paragraph… ■ Itwants express an specific order using the ordinal numbers ■ It could be use to organize information of various elements – Animals that conform the group of mammals are: ■ In first place are we have the sea animals like the whales, next to dolphins ■ Second are land animals, like Lions and wolves ■ And finally the human
- 11. Explanatory… ■ The reasonwhy the explanatory paragraphs are created is to amplify and specify some ideas ■ Wants to give detail information ■ It talks about previous topics developed on a text
- 12. Bibliography ■ Web site(Time for witting.com) (2018) “Expository paragraphs” taken from: https://www.time4writing.com/articles-about-writing/expository-paragraphs/ ■ Web site ( Wikipedia ) (2018) “Texto argumentative”. Taken from: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texto_argumentativo ■ Web site ( AboutEspañol) (2018) “Texto descriptive” taken from: https://www.aboutespanol.com/texto- descriptivo-2879768 ■ J. Martinez ( 2012) “ the paragraph” taken from: https://www.slideshare.net/julia_martinez/the-paragraph- 13899527 ■ Web site (Twinkl) “ witting a persuasive text display poster” taken from https://www.twinkl.com.au/resource/au-l-53230-writing-a-persuasive-text-display-poster ■ Web Forum ( essayforum) (2006-2018) “Five Sentence Chronological Paragraph. "Let me tell you how to make my favorite sandwich.“ taken from: https://essayforum.com/writing/five-sentence-chronological- paragraph-tell-53093/ ■ M.Naga ( 2009) “paragraph writing” taken from: https://www.slideshare.net/lionnagaraju/paragraph- writing-2226904 ■ C. Perez (2013) “ tipos de parrafos “ taken from: https://www.slideshare.net/c_perez/tipos-de-parrafos- 26634772?qid=da857502-92df-42d5-9f3e-44a2000ea4ac&v=qf1&b=&from_search=3