Monday, October 22, 2012

Chapter 7: Understanding Paragraphs supporting detail and transition

chapter 7 i feel is very important because it is the basis to any literature piece wether it is a paragraph, a story or a book. chapter 7 talks about how each paragraph or story is essentially broken into parts. the chapter breaks down the parts and teacher the mechanics of writing a paragraph. after reading this chapter i realized that writing a paragraph is a lot easier to me now than it was before reading this chapter. when dividing the paragraphs you are forced to give detail for every fact, and that essentially develops you paragraph into well thought out and detailed piece.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Chapter 6

What this chapter teaches is how important paragraph structure really is. After reading this chapter I realized how easy it really is to write a paragraph is you know what you are doing. Firstly it is important to have a good topic sentence meaning that your topic sentence has to be broad enough so that every other sentence in the paragraph ( detail ) describes your topic sentence. Once you have a good topic sentence, as long as your facts / details are not false and you are supporting the topic sentence then there is no way for the paragraph to have false information. Reading this chapter made me realize that sometimes it might be more worth it to spend some time and come up with a good topic sentence so that I can have less of a hassle when writing the rest of my paragraph.