A paragraph is still a fairly short kind of communication, however. If you have a lot more to say, one paragraph will not be enough. Groups of paragraphs may be required. A group of paragraphs, all sharing a common theme or topic, written so that one paragraph leads into the next, is called a composition or an essay. Essays can be narrative, descriptive, or expository, in exactly the same way as paragraphs can. In Writing Paragraphs, you investigated the writing strategiesand techniques required to create a one-paragraph essay. In this module, you willsee how these same methods are used to create longer essays.
The best way to learn to write well is through the use of clear examples and abundant practice. Writer's Resources: From Paragraph To Essay helps develop students' confidence and skills as writers by presenting concepts in simple, clear fashion, and reinforcing them with numerous student peer examples and frequent practice exercises that allow students the opportunity to apply what they have learned. Using four student peers who share their advice and examples of writing throughout the book, this paragraph-to-essay level text teaches students the fundamentals of the writing process, including paragraph and essay structure and development and rhetorical patterns.
This workbook is the second volume of a selection from the writing exam papers of the Department of Basic English at Middle-East Technical University. It aims to provide the intermediate and upper-intermediate students with writing material that will support the writing activities done in class. The first section focuses on the paragraph and its parts, to help students to write a unified, coherent paragraph. Sections 2 through 7 include material for the rhetorical patterns most commonly found in expository writing. Section 8 contains tasks for full composition writing.
Effective Academic Writing 1: The Paragraph reviews sentence structure and prepares students to write academic paragraphs, while introducing five essential rhetorical modes.
