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Effective Writing: Crafting Coherent Paragraphs

Understand the components of a well-structured paragraph, including topic sentences, supporting details, transitions, and closing statements. Enhance your writing skills by learning how to develop ideas logically and cohesively within paragraphs.

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Effective Writing: Crafting Coherent Paragraphs

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  1. Writing

  2. Writing

  3. The Paragraph Agroupof related sentences that work togethertodevelopone main idea

  4. Topic Sentence (TS) • Identifies the main idea • States what your topic is and what your paragraph will be about • Should be general enough to express the paragraph’s overall subject, but specific enough that the reader can understand the main point • Written inone sentence • Differentfrom thesis statement

  5. Supporting Detail (SD) • Relates to the main idea • Develops the topic sentence • Give details • Provide examples • Tell about an incident

  6. Supporting Detail (SD) • Organized in a logical order • Chronological (time) • Sequence (order) • Importance(general  specific or specific  general) • Relevance (most to least)

  7. Supporting Detail (SD) • Two types • Concrete detail (CD): specific examples • Commentary (CM): explanation of examples & how they relate to topic sentence

  8. Transition Words • Words or phrases that show the relationshipbetween sentences in a paragraph • Link sentences related to one topic Examples: however in fact similarly first in contrast therefore

  9. Transition Sentences • Connect sentences within a paragraph --OR-- • Appear at the end of a paragraph to move onto the next topic

  10. Closing/Summary Statement • Restate the topic sentence in different words. • A concluding sentenceclinches the point made in the paragraph. • It summarizesthe paragraph and provides closure.

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