Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Today, you are to hand in your four paragraph assignments from yesterday. We will then go over the rest of the information and you will complete the remaining assignments. Understand that you will be expected to have these questions on paragraph development memorized, so don't just skip through it.

The two questions we are going to add to the four we looked at yesterday are:

5. Would a comparison be meaningful?
6. Would a quotation or paraphrase be appropriate?

Do the following exercises:

* Write a five to seven sentence paragraph comparing two of your favourite performers. Be sure to include a topic sentence at the beginning.
* Name the kinds of development used in the following paragraphs:
- "Computer Occupations," Paragraph 1.
- "In Defense of Video Games," paragraph 3.
- "The Dimensions of a Complete Life,” paragraph 3.
- “The Dimensions of a Complete Life,” paragraph 7.
- “The Dimensions of a Complete Life,” paragraph 16.
- “Computer Occupations,” paragraph 2.
- “Computer Occupations,” paragraph 4.
- “In Defense of Video Games,” paragraph 2
- “Look Who’s Listening!” paragraph 2.
- “Look Who’s Listening!” paragraph 3.

Paragraph Exercise # 8

Choose one of the following topic sentences. Write a paragraph of about 100 words, using at least two different methods of development.

True education takes place outside the classroom.
Money can’t buy happiness.
Horror movies are popular because…
_________ is the most interesting person I know.