Simple,Compound and Complex Sentences

 http://www.eslbee.com/sentences.htm

Lesson 2: Organizing Support

Organizing Support:

       In the first stage of writing process you explored many ideas, experimented with them and even developed some approaches to write about them. You may have also gathered information through reading and note taking.

Stage 1 : Brainstorming, Listing, Clustering

Stage 2: Organizing thoughts

Stage 3: Writing the first draft

http://www.writing.ku.edu/guides/prewriting.shtml#cluster

Paragraph Development:

What is a paragraph?

       One of the central components of an essay or a paper is the paragraph. You may think that a paragraph is ideally 5 sentences put together, or a paragraph has a topic sentence , etc. But the essential definition of a paragraph is " It is a group of sentences or a single sentence that forms a unit” (Lunsford and Connors, 1995, p.116). In this definition the term “unit” or “unity” is the most important element. It is the unity and coherence among the sentences that makes a paragraph a paragraph. For further reading visit the following  webpages/links.

http://www.buowl.boun.edu.tr/students/Paragraph%20Development.htm

http://www.buowl.boun.edu.tr/students/Paragraph%20Writing%20Exercises.htm

Lesson 1: Controlling Idea

What is a controlling idea?

http://palc.sd40.bc.ca/palc/Archive/writingtips/controllingidea.htm

What is a topic sentence?

http://lsa.colorado.edu/summarystreet/helptext/topic.html

Examples: http://grammar.about.com/od/tz/g/topicsenterm.htm

What are supporting details and closing sentences?

To know more about the parts of paragraph.
http://www.slideshare.net/caitlingillmett/the-parts-of-a-paragraph

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