RWS - PARAGRAPH DEVELOPMENT

• Paragraph by narration


  • Most basic pattern
  • Act of telling a story
• Elements of paragraph by narration

  • Setting (time and location)
  • Character (antagonist/protagonist)
  • Plot (logical series of events)
  • Exposition (characters and settings are revealed)
  • Rising action (conflict is revealed)
  • Climax (turning point of the story)
  • Falling action (complications begin to resolve)
  • Denouement (final resolution)
• Point of view in paragraph by narration


  • First person (The writer tells his own story, uses "I")
  • Second person (The author tells the story in second person, uses "you", "your", "yours")
  • Third person (The narrator is part of the story but describes every event, uses "he", "him", "she", "hers")
• Paragraph by description


  Sensory details and creates vivid images
• Types of descriptive paragraph


  • Objective (informative, scientific, or technical, uses facts)
  • Subjective (gives pleasure or elicits special feelings, influenced by personal feelings or emotion)
• Paragraph by comparison and contrast


  • Comparison (how things are similar)
  • Contrast (how things are different)
• Paragraph by analogy


  Comparison between two things typically for the purpose of explanation, uses figures of speech like simile and metaphor
• Paragraph by analogy


  • cute as a kitten
  • swim like a dolphin
• Paragraph by classification


  Activity of sorting items, classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics
• Paragraph by definition


  Explains the meaning of a particular word or term, clears the meaning in simple and understandable language
• Types of definition


  • Formal (Term, Genus, Differentia)
  • Informal (Operational, Synonyms, Denotation and Connotation)
• Formal definition


  • Twitter is a social media platform that limits messages to 140 characters.
  • Microwave is a device that heats food using electromagnetic energy.
  • A solenoid is a coil that converts electric energy to magnetic energy.
• Informal definition


  • Stevia is a sugar substitute will serve as the active ingredient that will be responsible for regulating the blood sugar level on albino rats.
  • Anti-hyperglycemic is responsible for counteracting the accumulation of excess sugar in the blood i.e., tending to lower elevated blood sugar levels.
  • Myths narrate sacred histories and explain sacred origins. These traditional narratives are, in short, a set of beliefs that are very real force in the lives of the people who tell them.
• Paragraph by process


  Series of steps, usually in chronological or logical order, explains how something works or tells how to do something
• Types of process paragraph


  • Process explanation (writer's purpose is to help readers understand the process)
  • Process instruction (gives readers the information needed to perform a task or activity)
• Paragraph by cause and effect


  • Cause (what makes a particular thing happen)
  • Effect (the result/outcome)