An intro to how to write a clear and well organized paragraph. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Though close reading and substantive writing are essential skills for the educated person, they are frequently ignored in education. How to Write a Paragraph applies critical thinking tools to the process of writing to guide students towards developing clear, effective, and meaningful written communication. As a companion to How to Read a Paragraph, this volume in the Thinker’s Guide Library includes activities to sharpen writing skills and overall reasoning abilities. Readers who work through this guide learn to be clearer, more purposeful, more aware of the assumptions guiding their thoughts, and more substantive in their approach to writing. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.

This engaging and highly regarded book takes readers through the key stages of their PhD research journey, from the initial ideas through to successful completion and publication. It gives helpful guidance on forming research questions, organising ideas, pulling together a final draft, handling the viva and getting published. Each chapter contains a wealth of practical suggestions and tips for readers to try out and adapt to their own research needs and disciplinary style. This text will be essential reading for PhD students and their supervisors in humanities, arts, social sciences, business, law, health and related disciplines.

The materials in Paragraph Writing are meant to be used for modeling and practicing the basic skills of paragraph writing. Teaching ideas, student reproducibles, and writing forms cover these topics: - identifying parts of a paragraph: main idea/topic sentence, supporting details - writing various types of paragraphs: descriptive, narrative, directions, compare & contrast - planning paragraphs using a web and an outline 21 different writing forms are provided. The writing center includes ready-to-use materials such as: - sentences to sequence to make paragraphs - picture cards to write about - topic sentence paragraph starters Some topics include: - Lunch Time - Let's Eat - What a Noise - Unusual Places - I'm So Excited - My Best Friend - The First and Sixteenth Presidents - How to Fix a Sandwich - Bats and Birds - Party Time - Spiders in the Bedroom - Planet X - Monkey Snack - and many more

Does your learner need help with writing paragraphs? The How to Write an Awesome Paragraph Step-by-Step workbook teaches your students how to write a strong paragraph using a foolproof step-by-step process. Each incremental lesson teaches one step and contains practice examples to build skill and confidence. Students learn: The parts of a paragraph How to write a strong topic sentence How to write relevant details that connect to the topic sentence How to write a meaningful closing sentence For each step, students learn the basic process and then are taught how to "upgrade" the element to be even stronger. For topic sentences, students learn to upgrade by: Adding a question Introducing a comparison Stating an interesting fact Setting the scene with a description Grabbing attention with shock/excitement Similar clearly explained upgrades are taught for relevant details and closing sentences. Being able to write a strong paragraph is important for all students. Students without strong paragraph skills will especially struggle when it comes to essays or other longer writing tasks. This book is designed to help all late-elementary to high school students, but it is particularly useful for struggling or special needs students who will welcome the explicit steps which they can re-use each time they need to write a paragraph. The visual supports and incremental practice also build confidence in a wide range of students. Grab this book and help your learner become a confident writer!

An interactive, multimedia text that introduces students to reading and writing at the college level.

Introduces basic concepts of paragraph writing, explains the essentials of paragraphs, and provides practice exercises.