Understanding and Crafting a Basic Paragraph

GENERAL OVERVIEW

At its lowest definition, a paragraph is a group of sentences. However, to understand the composition of what goes into a paragraph, you must know that all sentences in a paragraph must RELATE to one another as they develop a central idea.

Writing for an Audience

You must write for your audience--not for yourself. While you are putting your ideas on paper, these ideas are meaningless if no one can follow them or they are filled with holes. Always write in a way that will make your ideas CRYSTAL CLEAR to your audience. Understand where they are coming from and where you want to lead them. Writing is a partnership. You must keep your audience in mind at all times.

Daily Grammar

Students of any of my English classes are encouraged to sign up for Daily Grammar to help slowly and steadily improve their grammar skills. Visit this link for more information.

The web address is: http://www.dailygrammar.com/

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connection
or reload the browserDisable in this text fieldEditEdit in GingerEdit in Ginger×Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connection
or reload the browserDisable in this text fieldEditEdit in GingerEdit in Ginger×Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connection
or reload the browserDisable in this text fieldEditEdit in GingerEdit in Ginger×Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connection
or reload the browserDisable in this text fieldEditEdit in GingerEdit in Ginger×

Visit GrammarBook.com

 Need Additional Help with Grammar?  

Visit GrammarBook.com!

Critique the use of both active and passive voices

 CLICK HERE TO GO TO WEBSITE FOR FULL LESSON

Outcome: Voice

Critique the use of both active and passive voices

Voice is a nebulous term in writing. It can refer to the general “feel” of the writing, or it can be used in a more technical sense. In this course, we will focus on the latter sense as we discuss active and passive voice.

Critique sentence structure and variety of sentences

CLICK HERE TO GO TO WEBSITE FOR FULL LESSON

Outcome: Sentence Structure

Critique sentence structure and variety of sentences

Language is made up of words, which work together to form sentences, which work together to form paragraphs. In this outcome, we’ll be focusing on sentences: how they’re made and how they behave. Sentences help us to organize our ideas—to identify which items belong together and which should be separated.

COMMON PUNCTUATION MARKS

 The content below is not my own work.  It comes from Lumen Learning, and it will assist you in understanding basics of punctuation.

Outcome: Punctuation

Critique the use of common punctuation marks.

Now that we’ve learned about the different types of words, it’s time to learn punctuation. These little marks can often be the cause of a lot of heartaches and headaches. Errors in punctuation can often have unintended meanings. For example consider the difference the comma makes in these two sentences:

• Let’s eat, Grandpa.
• Let’s eat Grandpa.