carefully selected details. Each of the five paragraphs below responds‚ in its own way‚ to the guidelines in How to Write a Descriptive Paragraph. The writers (three of them students‚ two of them professional authors) have selected a belonging or a place that holds special meaning to them‚ identified that subject in a clear topic sentence‚ and then described it in detail while explaining its personal significance. In the following paragraph‚ observe how the writer moves clearly from a description
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PARAGRAPH BY ANALOGY A paragraph by analogy compares two different things on the basis of their similarities in certain aspects. This kind of paragraph development premises its explanation on the familiar or known‚ so that the logical order (from the familiar to the unfamiliar) is presumed to be the best paragraph order.\ PARAGRAPH OF ANALOGY A.FALLING IN LOVE AND SKYDIVING Falling in love is like skydiving. Skydiving is a risk because you are never 100% certain that you will survive the fall
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A snake is on my foot‚ help!That is probably what most people would do if they had a snake on their foot‚ but this isn’t the case for a dinner party hostess in the short story “The Dinner Party‚” written by Mona Gardner. In this story‚ a British woman puts on a dinner party. There arouses a conversation about males being better than females. The colonel states that females scream in scary situations and men don’t. This was an argument that could be backed up by evidence until a small boy was asked
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exposition 4.) anecdote 5.) process 6.) character sketch 7.) definition 8.) classification 9.) exemplification 10.) cause and effect 11.) comparison and contrast 12.) details 13.) analogy Examples 1.)Descriptive paragraphs are often used to describe what a person looks and acts like. Read this example descriptive paragraph‚ notice how descriptive paragraphs are arranged by putting together all the sentences about the same thing. Here is an example of a descriptive paragraph: I am forty years
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1.) What is a paragraph? Etymology: From the greek word paragraphos which means‚ line used to mark change of persons in a dialogue‚ from paragraphein to write alongside‚ from para- + graphein to write. * A Paragraph is a distinct section of a piece of writing‚ usually dealing with a single theme and indicated by a new line‚ indentation‚ or numbering. * A collection of related sentences dealing with one topic. 2.) What is overloaded paragraphing? * Overloaded paragraphing
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Paragraph on Advertisement’s Gender Bias LINK FOR ADVERTISEMENT (YOUTUBE) – CLICK HERE A TV advertisement for Hasbro’s Rose Petal Cottage shows completely the gender bias on women‚ giving a pattern for young girls to follow. First of all‚ we can see that the girl from the ad is wearing baby pink‚ which implies that little girls should always wear pink and light colors‚ different from boys‚ who can’t even think of pink. When we move around the 12 first seconds of the video‚ we can also see that
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AIDS Introductory Paragraph Begin with an interesting quotation related to your opinion about Aids My opinion about aids is that it is a very deadly disease‚ but completely preventable disease. (You will need a transition here) - End the Intro paragraph with your thesis statement: Even though that aids is transmitted‚ it effects millions of people in America because and That millions of people in America have AIDS. Body Paragraph #1 Topic of the body thesis: That aids is transmitted
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“Grater Divide (2002)” is a sculpture created by Mona Hatoum that is currently exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. The sculpture is made of mild steel and is 203.8cm x 304.8cm and is in the shape of a room divider. However when one takes a closer look it is obvious that the separate panels are meant to represent an oversized cheese grater. The physical familiarity of the sculpture is not comforting to the viewer but instead unsettling. (Hatoum 1998) This sense of alienation that the viewer
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“The Five-Paragraph Essay” by Will D. Desmond argues that the five-paragraph essay is the most efficient way to write because it preserves communication‚ saves time‚ saves money‚ which in turn encourages the economy.” He emphasizes the importance of writing effectively. Choosing the proper thoughts and ideas to express in a productive manner. He wants future writers and readers to gain value from researching an idea‚ effectively expressing the idea and doing so while staying within the guidelines
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Shelby SmithSmith 1 English Composition 1010 July 2‚ 2012 Rhetorical Essay -Sample Paragraph The Legalization of Marijuana in America Should America legalize an illegal drug‚ as way out of the economical downfall we have found ourselves in? A popular article appeared in April of 2009 in Times magazine‚ catching millions of readers’ attention. The article was titled‚ “Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense” and was written by Joe Klein. Cannabis‚ America’s drug of choice for the
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