Writing Expository Paragraphs: With Enabling Writing Activities and Grammar Exercises
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 274
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 276
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Writing Expository Paragraphs helps low-intermediate ESL students recognize the format and building blocks of an English paragraph. This text helps students generate ideas, construct sentences, and compose and edit paragraphs of various rhetorical styles. For each type of paragraph development, there are tasks that enable students to go through the writing process while learning rhetoric-specific format, sentence structures, and punctuation.
Writing Expository Paragraphs:
- Features an introductory unit that includes essential elements of a paragraph and addresses common errors in low-intermediate student writing
- Encourages student participation in various activities to generate ideas
- Contains issues and socio-cultural topics that motivate students
- Provides units that help students become familiar with different modes of paragraph development and explains the objectives that are expected by the end of each learning unit
Acknowledgments
To the Teacher
To the Student
INTRODUCTORY UNIT
The Paragraph
Objectives
Paragraph Format
Generating Ideas
The Topic Sentence
Support Sentences
Unity
Coherence
The Concluding Sentence
The Complete Sentence
Phrases and Clauses
Non-Idiomatic or Awkward Sentences
Enabling Grammar Exercises
Subjects
Subject Pronouns
Linking Verbs and Action Verbs
Linking Verbs
Action Verbs
Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
Subject-Verb Agreement
Editing
Paragraph Analysis
UNIT ONE
Example
Objectives
Part I: The Example Paragraph
Paragraph Analysis
Part II: Elements of an Example
Paragraph
The Topic Sentence of an Example
Paragraph
Support Sentences
Detailing Support Sentences
The Concluding Sentence
Part III: Writing Your Example Paragraph
Expressing an Opinion about a Topic
Generating Ideas to Support an Opinion
Prioritizing Ideas
Writing a Rough Draft
Part IV: Enabling Grammar Exercises
Structure and Use of the Simple Present Tense
Basic Sentence Structure-Simple Present Tense
Use of Simple Present Tense
Opinions
Factual Statements
Habitual Activities
Use of Frequency Adverbs
Personal Information about Self or Others
Determiners
Articles
Quantifiers
UNIT TWO
Process
Objectives
Part I: The Process Paragraph
Paragraph Analysis
Part II: Elements of a Process Paragraph
The Topic Sentence of a Process Paragraph
Support Sentences
The Concluding Sentence
Part III: Writing Your Process Paragraph
Differentiating Between Chronologically Ordered and Spatially Ordered Paragraphs
Getting Ideas for Chronologically Ordered Paragraphs
Categorizing Steps in a Process
Getting Ideas for Spatially Ordered
Paragraphs
Categorizing Pierced Parts by Location
Part IV: Enabling Grammar Exercises
Prepositions
Ordinals
UNIT THREE
Description
Objectives
Part I: The Descriptive Paragraph
Paragraph Analysis
Part II: Elements of a Descriptive Paragraph
The Topic Sentence of a Descriptive Paragraph
Support Sentences
The Concluding Sentence
Part III: Writing Your Descriptive
Paragraph
Generating Ideas
Describing a Person
Describing an Object
Describing a Scenery or View
Sensory Details
Part IV: Enabling Grammar Exercises
Action / Non-action Verbs
Noun Clauses
UNIT FOUR
Narration
Objectives
Part I: The Narrative Paragraph
Paragraph Analysis
Part II: Elements of a Narrative Paragraph
The Topic Sentence
The Support of a Narrative Paragraph
The Concluding Sentence
Proverbs and Sayings as Lessons or Morals
Part III: Writing Your Narrative Paragraph
Getting Ideas
Writing a Rough Draft
Editing
Part IV: Enabling Grammar Exercises
Direct Speech and Reported Speech
Statement.
Information Question
Yes/No Question
Command
Command with the Negative Marker "Not"
UNIT FIVE
Extended Definition
Objectives
Part I: Extended Definition
Paragraph Analysis
Part II: Elements of an Extended Definition
Single Sentence Definition as Topic Sentence
Defnition Sentence
Hyphenated Noun Phrase
Adjectives
Distinguishing Characteristics as Adjective Clauses
Part III: Writing Your Extended Definition
Generating Ideas
Determining Class of Subject
Listing Distinguishing Characteristics
Constructing One-sentence Definition
Outline for the Extended Definition Paragraph
Circular Definition
Writing a Rough Draft
Part IV: Enabling Grammar Exercises
Adjectives Clauses
Using Adjective Clauses to Identify a Person
UNIT SIX
Cause and Effect
Objectives
Part I: The Cause and Effect Paragraph
Paragraph Analysis
Part II: Elements of a Cause and Effect Paragraph
The Topic Sentence of a Cause and Effect Paragraph
Support Sentences of a Cause and Effect Paragraph
The Concluding Sentence
Part III: Writing Your Cause and Effect Paragraph
Generating Ideas
Determining Causes of Accidents
More Anecdotes
Possible Causes of Accidents
Analysis of Cause Effect Sentences
Punctuating Cause Effect Sentences
Cause Effect Statements
Modal Auxiliaries in Cause Effect Sentences
Part IV: Enabling Grammar Exercises
Modals
Modals and Their Meanings
Negative Modals
Modals in the Past Tense
Other Uses of Modals
UNIT SEVEN
Comparison and Contrast
Objectives
Part I: The Comparison and Contrast Paragraph
Types of Comparison and Contrast Paragraphs
Paragraph Analysis
Part II: Elements of a Comparison and Contrast Paragraph
The Topic Sentence
Comparison and Contrast Support
Sentences
The Concluding Sentence
Part III: Writing Your Comparison and Contrast Paragraph
Generating Ideas
Deciding What to Compare or Contrast
Contrast
Listing Similarities and Differences
Part IV: Enabling Grammar Exercises
Coordinators
Conjunctive Adverb or Adverb Phrase
Correlative Conjunctions
UNIT EIGHT
Classification
Objectives
Part I: The Classification Paragraph
Paragraph Analysis
Part II: Elements of a Classification Paragraph
The Topic Sentence of a Classification Paragraph
Writing a Topic Sentence
Developing a Classification Paragraph
Ordering of Categories
The Concluding Sentence
Restating a Topic Sentence
Part III: Writing Your Classification Paragraph
Generating Ideas
Determining Principles for Classification
Writing Classification Sentences
Punctuating Classification Sentences
Classification Sentences in the Active Voice or Passive Voice
Part IV: Enabling Grammar Exercises
Passive Voice and Active Voice
The "By Phrase"
Participial Adjectives
UNIT NINE
Argumentation
Objectives
Part I: The Argumentative Paragraph
Paragraph Analysis
Part II: Elements of an Argumentative Paragraph
Stating the Issue
Taking a Stand
Analyzing Sentences That Expressa Stance
Deciding Whether to Compare or
Giving Reasons for and Against Your Stance
Supporting Ideas
Refutation
Part III: Writing Your Argumentative Paragraph
Generating Ideas
Controversial Issues
Vocabulary Used in Argumentation
Part IV: Enabling Grammar Exercises
Adverb Clauses
Sentence Types
UNIT TEN
Introduction to the Essay
Objectives
Part I: Paragraphs and Essays: Similarities and Differences
Part II: The Essay
Essay Analysis
Part III: Elements of the Essay
Attention Grabber
Thesis Statement
Body Paragraphs
Relevance of Support Sentences in Body Paragraphs
Concluding Paragraph
Part IV: Writing Your Essay
Generating Ideas
Categorizing Ideas
Forming Sentences with Words or Phrases in Categories
Writing a Draft
Editing
Part V: Enabling Grammar Exercises
Causative
Type A: Causative Verbs That Take
the Base Form of the Verb in the Second Clause
Type B: Causative Verbs That Take the Infinitive in the Second Clause
Index