Properties of a Well Written Text.pdf

Reading and Writing Skills

1. essay sentence
research
paragraph
story
poem
WRITIN G

2. WHATISAPARAGRAPH?

3. sentences,
•agroupofatleastfive
aparagraphis
halfa page long,etc.
•alwaysdefinedintermsof
length
PARAGRAPH

4. PARAGRAPH
•seriesofsentencesthat
areorganizedand
coherent,andareall
relatedtoasingletopic.
https://wts.indiana.edu/writing-guides/paragraphs-and-topic-sentences.html

5. WhatarethePARTSofa
paragraph?

6. PARTSOFAPARAGRAPH
TOPIC
SENTENCE
SUPPORTING
SENTENCES
CONCLUSIONS

7. TOPICSENTENCE
•Sentence thatsummarizesthe
mainideaofaparagraph.
•Itisusuallythefirstsentencein
a paragraph.
•Also known as a focus sentence,
itencapsulatesororganizesan
entireparagraph.

8. TOPICSENTENCE
TOPIC
TWOPARTS
CONTROLLING IDEA
namesthe
subjectofthe
paragraph
limitsorcontrols
thetopictoa
specificarea

9. SUPPORTINGSENTENCES
•provideexamplesfor
the topicsentence.
•the next sentences will
include information
supportingthe main
idea in the topic
sentence.
https://www.learnamericanenglishonline.com/Write_in_English/WL8_supporting_sentences.html

10. CONCLUSION
•Theydrawtogetherthe
youhaveinformation
presentedtoelaborate
yourcontrolling
[summarize,
idea
repeat/
restateideas,professa
hope,advice,opinion]

11. CONCLUSION
•Theyoftenlinkthe
tocurrentparagraph
the following
paragraph.
•Maybeaddedbutnot
essentialinsome
areas.

13. PROPERTIES
OFA
WELL-
WRITTEN
TEXT

15. •writer’sideasmust
beclearand
logicallyarranged
•ideasshouldbe
smoothlydone
withoutgaps

16. •allsentencesshouldbe
relatedtooneanother
andareguidedbythe
topicsentence.
•Irrelevant
whichcause
sentences
confusion
tothereadershouldbe
avoided.

17. Itcovers:
•sentenceorder
•logicalflowof
argument
•transitions

18. MAINCOMPONENTS
OFA
WELL-
WRITTEN
TEXT
FOUR

19. RELEVANCE
ORDER
DEDUCTION
TRANSITION
WORDS

20. Sentencesinaparagraph
shouldberelatedyetnot
thesame.
Ifthetwosentencesare
notcloselyrelated,you
willlosethereaders’
attention,becausethey
willhavetoguesswhere
youaregoing.

21. Avoidhavingidenticalsentences,itwill
notaddanynewinformationtoyour
work,andthereaderwillbeannoyed.

22. Allsentencesmustbe
relatedtothemainideaand
shouldbearrangedlogically.

23. paragraph
witha
The
begins
generalstatement
andcontinuesby
presentingspecific
relevant details.

24. Theyhelpaparagraphflow
moresmoothlyandshowhow
eachsentencerelatestoone
another.

25. MOST COMMONLY USED
ADDITION
•also
•again
•besides
•furthermore
•inaddition
•likewise
•moreover
•aswellas
RESULT
•
•
•
•
thus
therefore
as a result,
consequently
•forthis
reason
•hence
•otherwise
•subsequently

26. MOST COMMONLY USED
GENERALIZATIONS
•typically
•asusual
•forthemost
part
•generally
•usually,
•ingeneral
Introducing
Examples
•forexample
•forinstance
•asan
illustration
•asanexample
•inthiscase

27. MOST COMMONLY USED
Emphasis
•aboveall
•chiefly
•especially
•particularly
Similarity
•similar
•togetherwith
•combined
with
•comparatively
•correspondingly
•likewise
•significantly
•most
importantly
•primarily

28. MOST COMMONLY USED
Exception
•asidefrom
•besides
•except
Restatement
•excluding
•exclusiveof
•otherthan
•outside of
•inessence
•inother
words
•namely
•thatis
•inshort
•toputit
differently

29. MOST COMMONLY USED
Contrast
/Compare
•incontrast
•
•
•
•
•
conversely
instead
ontheother
hand
on the
contrary
rather
•similarly
•yet
•but
•however
•still
•nevertheless
•incontrast
•comparatively
•likewise

30. MOST COMMONLY USED
Order
(time)
•atfirst
•tobeginwith
•atthesame
time
•now
•thenextstep
•inturn
•lateron
•meanwhile
•next
•then
•soon
•later
•while
•earlier
•simultaneously
•afterward
•before
•prior
•last
•meanwhile

31. MOST COMMONLY USED
Summary
•inbrief
•in
conclusion
•inshort
•insummary
•inthefinal
analysis
•finally

32. Everyparagraphyouwriteshouldfollow these
principles:
1.Theparagraphmustcontaina
topicsentence.
2.Allremainingsentencesshould
supportanddevelopthetopic
sentence.
3.Onlyonemainideashouldbe
developed
4.Thesentencesshouldflow
smoothlyandlogically.
5.Aconcludingsentencemaybe
addedbutisnotessential.

33. VERONICA M. CONTI, LPT