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Coaching Paragraphs Essay

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Coaching Paragraphs Essay

Hello there,

I appreciate how you reached out for help with your writing skills. Challenges are normal, especially when trying to perfect a skill. You could gain a lot from comprehending the fundamentals of paragraphing, transitions, and transitional devices since these three components determine the writer’s quality. Remember, even though you might have learned these concepts in school, I hope my explanations and examples will help you understand each component and how they can be easily articulated in your writing.

Paragraphing is the first key component I want us to review. This concept involves arranging and expounding ideas to get the reader to understand what you are writing about clearly. One of the main challenges many writers have is explaining several unrelated ideas in one paragraph. This leads to muddled-up ideologies that need to be clarified for the reader and reduce the quality of written content. Therefore, one simple tip that I would love you to implement in your writing is expounding on one idea per paragraph since this will help make your work more clear and easy to understand. Also, while expressing your paragraph, there are four things I want you to master; developing your topic sentence, demonstrating your point, giving your paragraph meaning, and concluding the idea. The topic sentence will involve you presenting the controlling idea or subject matter, mostly in the paragraph’s first sentence, on the main issue you want to discuss. For example, start your paragraph with a topic sentence: “There are several benefits of implementing online education in secondary schools”. After the “topic sentence”, you will then have to demonstrate the point by giving each advantage on its own, give the paragraph meaning by explaining why you think the topic matters and conclude your paragraph by summarizing the points stated and also providing a link to what you are going to talk about in the next paragraph (Paul & Elder, 2019).

At this point, we now reach the second component of transitions. After concluding one idea, to link it to the next idea, you will require transitions. Transitions are often words or phrases that can connect sentences and paragraphs, depending on their relationships. Transitions also depend on the organization of the written work, that is, how you present your idea. If you present disorganized work, transitions might not improve the workflow, even when placed in the right position. Examples of the commonly used transitions include, in addition to, as a result, also, for this purpose, finally, consequently, including, especially, above all, as an illustration, for example, indeed, etc. Flow is one of the main things that transitions help to achieve in writing. Therefore, for you to be able to flow through and emphasize or contrast any idea swiftly, you must introduce the necessary transitions.

Finally, “transitional devices” are “words” or “phrases” that aid the effective use of transitions. They are used in case the writer wants to add, summarize, conclude, emphasize, or contrast something, among other purposes. Hypothetically, transitional devices can be compared to the car, bus, train, or flight you take from home to school. Imagine a situation where none of these tools are available, yet you are supposed to head to school. It would have been difficult, especially if you live miles away and must reach school before classes begin. Therefore, as it is necessary for you to achieve a flow of ideas within your writing, it is also necessary to use transitional devices to connect those concepts.

In conclusion, with proper arrangement or articulation of paragraphs, transitions, and transitional devices within your writing, you will achieve quality writing. Also, remember, you can only achieve quality with practice. You must understand that being committed to writing will require you never to give up no matter how many falls you get as long as you work towards improving your presentation of ideas. Take it as a challenge and try writing a few paragraphs and essays per week as you seek peer reviews from those who have already done it better than you since it is one of the proven ways to improve on writing (Ganeshan, 2014). Also, understand that each paragraph serves its purpose because there must be an introduction and conclusion. Start with a few simple ideas before graduating to complex essays, and if you integrate all ideas mentioned above, everything will be alright with practice.

References

Ganeshan, P. (2014). Students Teaching Other Students about Paragraphs and Transitions. Teaching English in the Two Year College, 41(4), 409.

Paul, R., & Elder, L. (2019). How to write a paragraph: The art of substantive writing. Rowman & Littlefield.