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Mastering the Art of Effective Writing

Learn about the four aims of writing, the parts of a paragraph, and traits of a good paragraph for clear and impactful communication. Discover methods for elaboration and order of ideas to enhance your writing skills.

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Mastering the Art of Effective Writing

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  1. The Four Aims Purposes of Writing

  2. To Inform Some writers want to give facts and other kinds of information or explain something to their readers. This information may be based on research, personal knowledge, or something you witnessed or heard. It can also explain a process or tell about a series of events. Examples: Newspaper Articles, Research Papers, How-To’s

  3. To Persuade Sometimes writers want to persuade other people to change their minds about something or to act in a certain way, such as purchasing an item or voting for a certain candidate. Examples: Advertisements, Persuasive Essays

  4. To Express Sometimes writers simply want to express their own feelings and thoughts. This type of writing places greater emphasis on opinion than on fact. Examples: Journals, Newspaper Editorials

  5. To Be Creative Some writers present their writing in nontraditional ways for the purpose of entertaining their reader or leading their reader to look at an idea from a different perspective. The purpose of this writing is often to create a mood, emotion, or image. Examples: poems, songs, plays

  6. The Parts of a Paragraph

  7. Main Idea The purpose or focus of gathered thoughts in a paragraph

  8. Topic Sentence A statement that specifically expresses the main idea of the paragraph

  9. Supporting Sentences Gives details, examples or information to support or elaborate the main idea

  10. Clincher Restates the main idea of the paragraph in a different way than the topic sentence; pulls all the details together and signals the end of the paragraph

  11. Traits of a Good Paragraph

  12. Unity All the parts of the paragraph work together as a unit to express and support one main idea

  13. Coherence The ideas in a paragraph are arranged and connected in a way that will make sense to the readers

  14. Order of Ideas • Chronological Order- used to relate events in the order they happen(ed) • Spatial Order- used to describe objects or places according to where they are located • Order of Importance- used to show importance of details in relation to one another • Logical Order- used to group related ideas

  15. Elaboration Development or expansion of the paragraph’s main idea using plenty of supporting details

  16. Methods of Elaboration • Sensory Details- precise bits of information collected using the five senses • Fact- statements that can be proven true (Statistics are facts involving numbers.) • Examples- specific instances, or illustrations, or an idea

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