1. Paragraph
writing

2. Paragraph Writing
• Writing is an
essential job skill
• Builds your
ability to explain
complex
positions
• Develops
communication
and thinking
skills
• Helps give
others feedback
and helps others
give feedback to
you.
• Writing
expresses who
you are as a
person

3. • Organization
of the
paragraph
• VOCABULARY
CHOICE

4. Unity
• It means that
all the
sentences refer
to the main
idea, or the
topic of the
paragraph.
• Exercise 1: The original
student paper:
• I live in a flat with my family.
We have two bedrooms and a
living room. We have a
garden and we have some
flowers there. In weekdays I
arrive home at five o'clock
and I have lunch. Then I do
my homework and go to bed.
I had a computer but now it
doesn't work. I have a brother
and a sister and I think I am
very lucky to live with them.
Sometimes our relatives visit
us. Our flat becomes very
crowded sometimes but I like
it

5. coherence
• It means that
the sentences
should be
organized in a
logical manner
and should
follow a
definite plan
of
development.

7. Faulty Start
• A nonsense
sentence:
• E.g. I want to
talk about
friendship.
• 2. A cliché:
e.g. Friends plays a
great role in our
lives.
Friendship is a
very important
issue in today's
world.

8. Lack of Topic Sentence
• Topic sentence
is the main
idea, your
attitude, your
evaluation of
something.

9. Development of the ideas
• It means that
every idea
discussed in the
paragraph
should be
adequately
explained and
supported
through
evidence and
examples.