PARAGRAPH Group of sentences that develops one main idea, also known as TOPIC (the subject of the paragraph).

PARAGRAPH Transitional Words and Phrases: They help to achieve coherence by establishing the relationship between sentences in a paragraph.

PARAGRAPH A COHERENT paragraph contains sentences that are logically arranged and that flow smoothly.

Topic Sentence The topic of a paragraph is introduced in a sentence, called the topic sentence. It’s a good idea to place it at or near the beginning of the paragraph.

Topic Sentence The controlling idea is an idea or attitude about the topic. All sentences in the paragraph should relate to and develop this controlling idea. To decide the controlling idea is important to develop first a prewriting planning.

Topic Sentence A generalization is used to develop the topic, is a statement that applies in most cases to a group of things. It can be a value judgment or an opinion, or a factual statement.

The Narrative Paragraph They describe an experience and the logical arrangement of ideas is chronological.

The Narrative Paragraph Adverbials of time and sequence: They are use to show the reader the time relationship between sentences and ideas. Clarifying the time relationship helps to achieve coherence.

The Descriptive Paragraph When you are describing the way something looks the space is important, called spatial organization. You should arrange your sentences and details according to where the objects being described are located, and make this location very clear.

The Descriptive Paragraph Description of a place: This description must be organized so that the reader can vividly imagine the scene being described. The arrangement of the details depends on the subject.

The Descriptive Paragraph Adverbs of Place: Clarifying the spatial relationship helps to achieve coherence, this expressions are called adverbs of place, and most of them are prepositional phrases.

The Descriptive Paragraph Description of a person: What you select to describe depends on your topic and purpose, you could describe the person’s physical appearance, behavior, or both. Your description has to be vivid, coherent and logically arranged.

The Descriptive Paragraph Coherence: There are two ways of improving coherence in chronologically developed paragraphs: time sequence markers and using adverbial clauses of time.

The Descriptive Paragraph Adjective clause: Also called relative clause, modifies a noun and is a dependant clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence; it must be connected to an independet clause. An adjective clause can be placed only after the noun it modifies.

The Expository Paragraph A paragraph that explains or analyses a topic is an expository paragraph, and the most common approach to developing it requires using specific details and examples.

The Expository Paragraph Coherence: The sentences in the expository paragraph depends on the subject and often on the author’s logic. In the order of importance is wise to place the best impressive example at the end of the paragraph to leave a good impression on the reader.