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    "What Makes A Good Paragraph?": "We Have To Be Able To Understand It!"

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    There are 3 things that make a good paragraph: unity, coherence, and elaboration. Unity means that all sentences in the paragraph relate directly to the main idea. Coherence means that all sentences logically fit together, which can be achieved by ordering details sensibly and using transitional words. Elaboration means adding more descriptive details so readers understand clearly, such as using examples, comparisons, facts, sensory details, or cause and effect explanations.

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    "What Makes A Good Paragraph?": "We Have To Be Able To Understand It!"

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    There are 3 things that make a good paragraph: unity, coherence, and elaboration. Unity means that all sentences in the paragraph relate directly to the main idea. Coherence means that all sentences logically fit together, which can be achieved by ordering details sensibly and using transitional words. Elaboration means adding more descriptive details so readers understand clearly, such as using examples, comparisons, facts, sensory details, or cause and effect explanations.

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    What can we do to make our reader understand our writing?

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    Writing Paragraph

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    There are 3 things that make a good paragraph: unity, coherence, and elaboration. Unity means that all sentences in the paragraph relate directly to the main idea. Coherence means that all sentences logically fit together, which can be achieved by ordering details sensibly and using transitional words. Elaboration means adding more descriptive details so readers understand clearly, such as using examples, comparisons, facts, sensory details, or cause and effect explanations.

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    "What Makes A Good Paragraph?": "We Have To Be Able To Understand It!"

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    There are 3 things that make a good paragraph: unity, coherence, and elaboration. Unity means that all sentences in the paragraph relate directly to the main idea. Coherence means that all sentences logically fit together, which can be achieved by ordering details sensibly and using transitional words. Elaboration means adding more descriptive details so readers understand clearly, such as using examples, comparisons, facts, sensory details, or cause and effect explanations.

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    “What Makes a

    Good
    Paragraph?”
    “We have to be able
    to understand it!”
    “What can we do to make our
    reader understand our writing?”
    3 Things Make a
    Good Paragraph:

    1.Unity
    2.Coherence
    3.Elaboration

    “What do all of
    Let’s Start with Unity…
    “What does
    unity mean to
    • Whenyou?”
    a paragraph
    has unity, all the
    sentences relate
    directly to the main
    idea.

    • If there is a
    sentence off topic
    at all, this begins to
    Use only the most
    create confusion for
    important details!
    your reader.
    LET’S SEE AN EXAMPLE…
    Find the sentence in the paragraph that
    destroys the unity and doesn’t belong.

    The disappearance of Amealia Earhart remains a mystery. Earhart, who was the
    first woman pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, crashed into the Pacific Ocean
    while attempting to fly around the world. She was born in Atchison, Kansas, in
    1897. Some researchers believe that she survived the crash into the Pacific,
    because radio distress calls were received. An intensive search for the source of
    the signals was made. Searchers were not able to find her, however. Finally, the
    distress signals ceased. In spite of continued searches by airplane and ship, no
    clue about what became of Amelia Earhart has yet been found.
    She was born in Atchison, Kansas in 1897. = Doesn’t relate directly to main idea.
    #2:COHERENCE
    • A coherent paragraph is one in
    which all of the sentences
    logically fit together.

    • When a paragraph has coherence,


    your reader can easily see how all
    of the details are connected.
    “How can we
    create
    coherence?”
    There are
    2 ways!

    1.Order details in a way


    that makes sense.
    2. Show a connection by
    using transitional words.
    “Order
    Please!”
    Not that kind of order!

    Coherence Organizing your details in a specific order


    is 1 way to make your paragraph clear and
    coherent.

    Chronological Presents details in “Look at


    Order the order they occur
    the chart!”
    Spatial Order Presents details
    according to location
    Coherence
    Order of Details are least
    Importance important to most or
    the reverse
    Logical Order Groups related
    details together
    2 nd
    Way to
    Create
    Coherence: “We want to see a
    connection!”
    Transitional words help the
    Transitional
    reader see a relationship
    after

    later
    finally

    meanwhile
    soon

    first

    Words
    between ideas.
    next before then

    across beyond under They tie things


    around inside down together!
    because therefore
    consequently
    # 3:
    Elaboratio
    n
    “Give us
    more detail!

    Elaboration means:
    to add more detail,
    so your reader can
    get a clear picture of
    what you mean!
    Here are are Nine
    Ways to Elaborate!
    1. Use Highly Descriptive Words: vivid adj.’s & adv.’s,
    precise V’s & N’s.

    2. Give a detailed Definition of the subject or detail.

    3. Provide an Example that shows your point.

    4. Use Comparison: Similes and/or Metaphors.

    5. Use Contrast to show how your idea is different from something else.

    6. Include a Fact to support your main idea.

    7. Use a Statistic (a fact in numerical form) to support your main idea.

    8. Use Sensory Details that appeals to one or more of the 5 senses.

    9. Use Cause & Effect to explain how 1 thing causes another.


    “Now we see what
    you’re talking

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