Writing Skills: The Paragraph
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ธ.ค. 2024
- The paragraph is the most important unit of a well-written essay. The paragraph has a specific structure and standards that make it effective and enjoyable to read. In this writing lesson we will look at how to construct good paragraphs and improve writing with better flow and clarity. After the lesson, take the quiz: www.engvid.com...
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Hi, welcome again to www.engvid.com. I'm Adam. Today's lesson is about the paragraph. It's a writing lesson, and I want to show people what a paragraph is and how to construct one, what to do, what not to do so you can write very clear, very tight paragraphs. This is especially important for IELTS, TOEFL, SAT students but everybody has to follow the exact same rules. Now before I even begin, I must say that I'm talking mostly about academic writing or even business writing. Creative writing like novels or short stories, anything fiction, you can do anything you want. Only always remember: somebody has to read what you wrote so it has to be clear. But academic essays, for example, certain rules you have to follow; you have to be very careful about them. So let's begin.
In terms of like the actual way a paragraph looks: you have to indent or skip a line. So let me just make sure you understand what an indent is. This is an indent, the first line a little bit pushed in or you can make sure you skip a line between paragraphs. But don't do both. If you skip a line, don't indent. Okay? That's the main thing.
Now, that's in terms of the way it looks. In terms of content -- and this, I can't stress this enough -- very, very, very important: one central idea in one paragraph. Okay? I've seen many people, I've seen many essays where you start a paragraph talking about one thing, and then you go off on a tangent and talk about something completely unrelated. So for example: if you start a paragraph and you're talking about apples, continue to talk about apples. If you go to oranges, that's maybe okay because you're still talking about fruit. But if you start with apples, go to oranges, go to bananas, and then end up with monkeys in space there's a bit of a problem; the reader has no idea what you're talking about. One paragraph, one central idea.
Now, make sure that you tell the reader what this central idea is. This is your thesis statement. Okay? It's a very general sentence. All it does is introduce the topic of the paragraph, nothing else. All the details comes after. So speaking of details, we'll talk about details in detail, but all other ideas, all the other sentences, all your sentences with the details must directly relate back to the main idea. So let's say here is your thesis statement; very general, every sentence after must relate back to that thesis statement. Okay? You can't go off to another idea. Everything must support this, must talk about the same topic. Very important. Okay?
How long should your paragraph be? Technically, a paragraph could be one sentence, but in an academic essay that rarely happens. But it could be any length you want, as long as you're still on that one topic, as long as you still have things to write and things to say about that topic, say it. If you have four sentences, fine; if you have 10 sentences, also okay. Again, for IELTS, TOEFL, SAT students: four, five sentences should be your limit. You can't be too long because you don't have time and you're going to start making mistakes.
So now, the details. Very important to have lots of details. Why is this topic important to your overall idea of your essay? Not only tell me what is the topic, what is the thesis statement of the paragraph, make sure you explain to me why this is important to the general idea of the essay. Give me your reasons. Now, why is it important? And then reasons, why you think what you're saying supports this idea. Examples, always use examples because giving me the reasons is okay; examples make me see exactly what you're trying to say. Very easy for me to understand what you're trying to say.
Now, in terms of flow, in terms of the way the reader can approach the paragraph, you have to have bridges. What is, what do bridges mean? Basically, when you have one idea in this sentence, you must connect it to the next sentence, you must connect it to the next sentence. Every sentence must have a link to the next sentence. This creates flow, makes it much easier to read and understand, and it keeps you on the one topic.
Now, key terms. If you're talking about something specific and you have to use a key term, use it as many times as you need to. Otherwise, avoid repetition. Try not to use the same word more than once in one paragraph. Okay? For example: if you're using the word "moreover" in the paragraph, don't use it, don't use "moreover" again -- use "in addition to", use "furthermore", "another", etc. Try to avoid using one word more than once, especially in the same paragraph.
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Sir, after watching several videos of yours and working upon your tips, I have found exponential improvement in my writing skills.
I can Now easily glide from one para to another, shift between sentences and can even use inversions to make them more ornate and elegant.
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Adam is an excellent English teacher! I love his tip about connecting ideas in sentences. Not only this is helpful in writing a powerful essay, but also it's really great for memorization. For my school, I have to tell summaries of several different stories, so I wrote the summaries first using Adam's technique - I connected important ideas in my sentences - and guess what, remembering the stories is 10x easier. Go Adam!
This was amazing to watch. I am of a poor educational background, I did not learn much writing structures or writing flow. However now I find my self with a new found passion for writing. I find that when one engages in intellectual communication, such as politics or debates, others have the power to pull you down or invalidate your statements, by how you construct your writing. Thank you very much.
We're in the same page. I also wanted to improve my writing skills. But there are people who are very skeptic when it comes to grammar. And It's a little difficult for me to think freely & creatively when I think about the rules in grammar.
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very helfull, yet I was wondering if u could explain to me the difference between critiquing literature and the discussion in an analytical essay?
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At last I last I found my problem in paragraph writing. This teacher give us clear difenetion in 15 minutes about paragraphs.
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I still think writing is so hard...
Edit: omg I created a thread. I wrote this comment like 3 years ago. Now I like writing. Im glad I changed
My TOEFL exam is tomorrow ._. and writing is the only thing i'm actually afraid of xD
Redawy R.V omg me to, I hate writing so much 😭😭😭💔
Juliano J I passed it! :D with a great result
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sanskar tiwari what if I hate writing and just the thought gets me annoyed? you can't practice something you don't like
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I hope you will do more videos like this one about essays.
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I am a ESL student at PCC Rock creek. I am so poor in writing essay. My problem is with the idea ... I usually don’t have lots of idea to write... I just finished my final exam today. I am feel bad 😢 I don’t think I pass the class . .... so during my break time from school around 4 week I will check out your video to get more knowledge about essays...thank you so much Adam for your sharing the videos.
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Thanks for these basic tips on paragraph construction. I found your tips very useful.
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Your paragraph instructions are very enlightening and straight forward. Thank you.
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Could you please make a video of "When to start a new paragraph" please.
Raysel Rincon You start a new paragraph every 5-6 sentences. There are some exceptions, however, it is usually 5-6 sentences. Hope that helped!
This lesson is excellent! Can you make more videos like this, please?
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Very engaging delivery! Adam, you did not include the conventional approach but explained the concept so well that upon some practice one can comfortably develop a paragraph on his or her own. Thanks!
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Teacher Adam, first of all, thanks for your amazing videos, I think it is missing a video about the "Conclusion" paragraph. It seems to me that It would be very useful.
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He speaks clear enough for someone to understand...
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So paragraph, you have a first idea, another idea and final idea and tie it all together, your main idea can be 1st sentence, middle sentence or final sentence.
Good job, Very clear lesson and easy to understand, keep it up💪🏽👍🏽
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dear sir , if i write about protecting the environment and possible measures ,so how should i write it ,thank you.
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Hey Adam. About how many lines I am supposed to write in my essay to make it aceptable?
depending on what is the topic
+luis diestra in ielts its about 4 5 questions i suppose 8 lines for each phragraph
+Ilkin Goyushov In IELTS they give two essays, one is longer than the other, I forgot exactly how many words, maybe the first one is at least 200 words and the second 450 words
Jijy La Dame En Bleu nope first task should be min 150 and the second 250 words
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Hi Adam,,
I have a question for you, how can l check my writing, if it correct or not? Is there any data to checked?
Please let me know!
Thanks for your help, God Bless.
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Brilliant teaching, your just wonderful.
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I always study English language with so smart teacher who teaching clearly to students of his grammar.
You are too great in your lesson delivery. You have indeed open up our understanding to the concept of paragraph development with so much wisdom. I'm much appreciated.
The video was quite helpful. Thanks!
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