ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Free Writing, Concept Map, Robertson Davies

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1100
• Professor: Elaine Bailey

Document Summary

Sanders"s under the influence narrates and describes the affect of an alcoholic father on a growing boy. Swift"s a modest proposal (although he ironically undermines his speaker"s own argument) A paragraph, in it"s simplest definition, is a group of sentences that relate to a common subject, usually indicated by indentation or set off from other blocks of sentences by a blank line. Effective paragraphs: has its main point or topic clearly stated in the opening couple of sentences (summarizes the entire paragraph, other sentences in the paragraph connected in some way to the topic area. Paragraphs explore and develop a single controlling idea. Usually writers should present that idea in the first sentence. A paragraph is a miniature essay in itself (think of an essay as a russian doll) Breaks your ideas into manageable chunks: do not have paragraphs that are a page long. The old rule about three main points to prove a statement is not necessary.