#5 - PARAGRAPH ORGANIZATION
June 14, 2020 PARTS OF A PARAGRAPH Academic writing is a very broad term that can include a great number of different genres, such as research articles, essays, abstracts, papers, among many others. Academic genres imply the use of formal English: words of Latin or French origin, no contractions, compound or complex sentences and well-organized paragraphs. A paragraph is a set of sentences that begins with a TOPIC SENTENCE that is enlarged with examples, explanations, quotes, paraphrasing, statistics, and other instances of SUPPORTING MATERIAL . These sentences are placed in general, at the beginning of the paragraph, although INTRODUCTION and CONCLUSION pargraphs are exceptions to this rule. Characteristics of a well-written paragraph. A well-written paragraph contains: -1- A TOPIC SENTENCE: What are you writing about? To deal with a good topic sentence, it is necessary to come up with: Interesting topics. A personal opinion on it....