Topics of the Course

“The activity of writing changes everything." (Joyce Carol Oates)

What are we going to see in this course?

In this course, we are going to see 

1) Basic concepts regarding writing organization
2) TEN basic paragraph structures: the LIST, EXAMPLE, COMPARISON, CONTRAST, DEFINITION, CLASSIFICATION, SPACE, TIME, PROCESS, CAUSE and EFFECT Paragraphs.

CULTURAL ASPECTS IN WRITING:
ALSO, in every page you will find a LINK that will take you to the biography or literary works of a famous writer.  You might want to take information/ideas from those links to come up with topics for your paragraphs. 

To access to the topics, click on the corresponding link:

1. The Topic Sentence and the Controlling Idea

2. The Patterns of Organization (developing outlines)

3. The LIST Paragraph

4. The EXAMPLE Paragraph

5. The COMPARISON Paragraph

6. The CONTRAST Paragraph

7. The DEFINITION Paragraph

8. The CLASSIFICATION Paragraph

9. The SPACE Paragraph

10. The TIME Paragraph

11. The PROCESS Paragraph

12. The CAUSE AND EFFECT Paragraph