| A Writer's Workshop: Crafting Paragraphs, Building Essays Bob Brannan,
Johnson County Community College
Expanding Paragraphs into Essays
Summary1.Turning a paragraph into an essay involves developing ideas and adding details to make the finished work more broad and interesting. |
| | | 2.Using examples to illustrate a point or clarify an idea is the heart of all writing, so you will find examples used in all patterns of development. |
| | | 3.The key to any division and classification writing is identifying and using an appropriate single organizing principle. |
| | | 4.When we speculate as to the reasons and outcomes of an event, we are dealing with the process of cause and effect. |
| | | 5.Process analysis writing tells the reader how to perform an activity or helps him or her understand it. |
| | | 6.The process of discovering and exploring the similarities and differences between people, ideas and things is done in comparison/contrast writing. |
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