DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Definition: A descriptive paragraphs gives you detailed information on the characteristics of the character, things, places, animals, people, the descriptive text gives the author all the information contained in the details, colors, shapes, etc.

Paragraph:

Based on the statement:

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say”-Anais Nin

     The role of a writer is to provide information that can be real or false, that depends on the type of stories, can be articles for magazines or stories for children. There are types of stories such as, for example, avant-garde writers are conformist, have a refreshing spirit, propose radical innovations, have a committed look and do not fear change, or a means of expressing the word. For its part, the writer is an imaginative creator of beauty, should be, using a natural language that can be popular, colloquial family, or specialized, which can be specific, scientific, cultured, poetic, that attracts readers, that provides , emotions in their texts may be related to issues that cause frustration, anger, guilt, loneliness, pain fear, in the reader, it is not reprehensible that a writer write beautiful or abstract texts dedicated to love, distance, time etc. , so the role of a writer is to materialize his orality, the role is to say what he considers to have something to tell and that the world must know and so the texts, stories, and books are created.


References:

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Bakhtin, M. M. (1986). Speech genres and other late essays (V. W. McGee, Trans.). Austin: University of Texas Press.

Berry, M. (1981). Systemic linguistics and discourse analysis: A multi-layered approach to exchange structure. In M. Coulthard & M. Montgomery (Eds.),Studies in discourse analysis (pp. 120–145). London, England: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Written by: Yascide Galvis

PARAGRAPH ARGUMENT

Definition: An argument paragraph presents a point of view and provides evidence for the point of view taken. An argument is an opinion supported by facts. Writers refer to opinions as claims and facts as evidence. The claim clearly states a stance on a topic or issue. Evidence to prove this claim can include reasons, personal experience, statistics, confirmed facts, and expert research.

Paragraph:

Based on the statement:

"Easy reading is damn hard writing." ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Undoubtedly effective writing is lean, clean, and easy to read, furthermore my basic thinking about writing is that stuff’s got to happen or you lose the reader’s attention because you try to pull the language in to such sharpness that it jumps off the page. For example Nathaniel Hawthorne says “It must look easy, but it takes me forever to get it to look so easy”. In addition, Alexander Pope who says, "Easy writing is damn hard reading," and vice versa, easy reading is damn hard writing. First, writing is hard work, and it is challenging, but the challenge is part of the pleasure.  In fact the challenges of this process also provide the greatest engagement with the texts. An example of this is easy reading is easily understood. Perhaps you've heard the saying "can't see the forest for the trees?" Meaning someone is so caught up in details they lose sight of the overview. Therefore the difference between good writers and great writers is that great writers spend a lot more time re-writing. The experience of the reader is inversely proportional to that of the writer. "Easy reading is damn hard writing," as  Greg Ciotti says. In conclusion when working hard on a text is easy to understand that makes it fun and not boring, getting the reader's attention and immerse it into an adventure to which you want to communicate.

REFERENCES

      Canavor, N. (1942). Business Writing in the Digital Age. Thousand Oaks, Calif. Sage 2012.

   Carvajal, H. (2016) Academic Writing: Paragraphs. Retrieved on December 19th, 2016 from http://hdl.handle.net/10596/9712

   Emerson, R. W. (1980). The Conduct of Life. New York: Paidos.

     Learn American English Online (Type of paragraphs Lesson ten) Retrieved  July 03,2014, from:

https://www.learnamericanenglishonline.com/Write_in_English/WL10_types_of_paragraphs.html

   McGee, I. (2014). The pragmatics of paragraphing English argumentative text. Journal Of Pragmatics, 6840-72. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2014.04.002. Retrieved October 14, 2017, from http://bibliotecavirtual.unad.edu.co:2051/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edselp&AN=S0378216614000770&lang=es&site=eds-live

   National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Job Outlook 2016: The Attributes Employers Want to See on New College Graduates’ Resumes. Available in http://www.naceweb.org/career-development/trends-and-predictions/job-outlook-2016-attributes-employers-want-to-see-on-new-college-graduates-resumes/

 Rhetoric and Composition/Print version. (n.d.). Retrieved October 14, 2017, from https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Rhetoric_and_Composition/Print_version

  Sussman, D. (2012, July 20). What is a paragraph? Retrieved on December 12^th, 2016 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mweXIEOZjQQ


Umbral, F. (2003). The mental ones at night. Madrid: Planet.

Merrigan B "Easy reading is damn hard writing." Retrieved November 21, 2013 from 

http://www.merriganco.com/blog/2013/11/easy-reading-is-damn-hard-writing.html

OUTLINES

Abbreviation	Explanation	Your sentence
T.S	A topic sentence expressing the point of view clearly
S.S #1	A supportive sentence
Ex. S.S	an example sentence of the supportive sentence
A.I	An author’s idea supporting the supportive sentence (second source)
S.S #2	A new supportive sentence
Ex. S.S	An example sentence of the supportive sentence
A.I	An author’s idea supporting the supportive sentence (second source)
C.S	A conclusion sentence.
R	References APA	Rhetoric and Composition/Print version. (n.d.). Retrieved October 14, 2017, from https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Rhetoric_and_Composition/Print_version McGee, I. (2014). The pragmatics of paragraphing English argumentative text. Journal Of Pragmatics, 6840-72. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2014.04.002. Retrieved October 14, 2017, from http://bibliotecavirtual.unad.edu.co:2051/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edselp&AN=S0378216614000770&lang=es&site=eds-live