Supra-sentantial

 

Ok - quick recap

  1. There are no facts (kinda) in academic writing.
  2. What we say in our assignments is made stronger with references - especially from experts.
  3. Modality and Hedging make your writing less-argue-with-able.
  4. Our writing should be connected to create some cohesion.
  5. And write the topic sentence last.

Is that about right?

 

Ok - ready to start writing paragraphs then?

Before you venture too far - cast your eyes over the information below

 

Descriptive
These paragraphs have four main aims. First, they naturally describe something or somebody, that is conveying the information. Secondly, such paragraphs create powerful images in the reader's mind. Thirdly, they appeal to the primary senses of vision, hearing, touch, taste, and smell, to get the maximum emotional response from the reader. And finally, they increase the dynamics of the text. Some grammar rules may be skipped in descriptive paragraphs, but only for the sake of imagery. Something you find in a novel maybe
Expository
These paragraphs explain how something works or what the reader is to do to make it work. Such paragraphs demand a certain level of expert knowledge. Writing them is a great exercise to gain understanding the material. Engineering reports, How To documents
Narrative
These paragraphs tell a story within the story. The structure of a narrative paragraph, including the start, the middle, and the end, forms a part of the whole piece of writing, one piece of the puzzle providing information as the authors builds the story. Something you find in a novel
Persuasive

It is the easiest paragraph to understand, but arguably the hardest one to write. The essay writer needs to persuade the reader to follow their ideas - which have been gained from research and uses evidence to balance arguments.

Some arguments used in persuasive arguments include:

  1. Reason - Result
  2. Means - Purpose
  3. Means - Result
  4. Grounds - Conclusion
 This is the one we want - but not with emotive language.

 

NB - Go online and you will see many similar descriptions with more or less categories - it gets very complicated. I am choosing to keep this simple