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11 Methods of Pharagraph Development

The document outlines 11 methods of paragraph development: definition, comparison/contrast, details, illustration, analogy, repetition, cause and effect, elimination, question, answer, and enumeration. It provides examples for each method. Definition is stating the meaning of a term. Comparison/contrast emphasizes similarities or differences. Details provide extended treatment of particular items. Illustration uses a story to support a main point. Analogy draws inferences between two things based on similarities. Repetition repeats words or phrases to clarify an idea. Cause and effect examines how reasons lead to consequences. Elimination removes unwanted elements. Question poses a problem for discussion. Answer responds to an inquiry. Enumeration completely lists items in a collection.

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11 Methods of Pharagraph Development

The document outlines 11 methods of paragraph development: definition, comparison/contrast, details, illustration, analogy, repetition, cause and effect, elimination, question, answer, and enumeration. It provides examples for each method. Definition is stating the meaning of a term. Comparison/contrast emphasizes similarities or differences. Details provide extended treatment of particular items. Illustration uses a story to support a main point. Analogy draws inferences between two things based on similarities. Repetition repeats words or phrases to clarify an idea. Cause and effect examines how reasons lead to consequences. Elimination removes unwanted elements. Question poses a problem for discussion. Answer responds to an inquiry. Enumeration completely lists items in a collection.

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11 METHODS OF PHARAGRAPH DEVELOPMENT

*Definition - A definition is a statement of the meaning of


a term (a word, phrase, or other set of symbols). The term
to be defined is the definiendum. The term may have many
different senses and multiple meanings.
Ex: A pineapple is a tropical fruit that has an acidic and
sweet taste.
*Comparison & Contrast - is an essay in which you either
compare something or contrast something. A comparison
essay is an essay in which you emphasize the similarities,
and a contrast essay is an essay in which you emphasize
the differences.
Ex: Even though high school and college are both
institutions of learning, they differ in at least three ways.
The first difference between high school and college is
their social atmospheres. In high school the facility is
usually smaller, and students are, for the most part, well
acquainted with each other.On the college scene people
are constantly coming and going, therefore rarely seeing
the same person twice in a day, which accounts for fewer
people being acquainted with each other.
*Details - extended treatment of or attention to particular
items.
Ex: Many Americans like to travel with only a backpack
one reason is because they want to leave space for
shopping. Moreover, traveling with lots of luggage.
*Illustration - is similar to the example paragraph because
it, too, isspecific in time, place, and action. The main
difference is that the illustration paragraph is a story(true
or untrue) that supports or develops a main point (the
topic sentence).

Ex: When the child has acquired some language, we get


some extraordinary glimpses of this fantastic world: When
my friend David was two and a half years old, he was
being prepared for a trip to Europe with his parents. He
was a very bright child, talked well for his age and seemed
to take in everything his parents had to say with interest
and enthusiasm. The whole family would fly to Europe
(David knew what an airplane was), they would see many
unusual things, they would go swimming, go on trains,
meet some of David's friends there. The preparation story
was carried on with just the right amount of emphasis for
a couple of weeks before the trip. But after a while David's
parents noticed that he stopped asking questions about
"Yurp" and even seemed depressed when he heard his
parents talk about it. The parents tried to find out what
was troubling him. He was most reluctant to talk about it.
Then one day, David came out with his secret in an
agonizing confession. "I can't go to Yurp! he said, and the
tears came very fast."I don't know how to fly, yet!"
*Analogy - inference that if two or more things agree with
one another in some respects they will probably agree in
others.
Ex: A book is like a forest. In a good book, a person can
read for hours not noticing the world passing around her.
Likewise, in a forest, a person can wander for hours,
completely missing the events of the outside world.
*Repetition - a literary device that repeats the same words
or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer. There are
several types of repetitions commonly used in both prose
and poetry.
Ex: Because I do not hope to turn again

*Cause and Effect - concentrates on the ability of the


writer to hook up the reasons why things happened and
lead to the particular consequences.
Ex: American poet and scientist Loren Eiseley (1907-1977)
followed in a rich tradition of natural-history writers,
including Gilbert White, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry
David Thoreau, John Burroughs, and John Muir. As Andrew
Angyal writes in the Encyclopedia of the Essay, "What
Eiseley accomplished through his popular essays was to
create an imaginative synthesis of literature and science-one that enlarged the power and range of the personal
essay."
*Elimination - is the process of getting rid of something,
whether it's waste, errors, or the competition.
Ex: You may have been getting the wrong idea of high
school education. Education is not the learning of the
parts of the miniscule flower, or the life cycle of the
heptus hupabitis, or the process of rationalizing the
quotient functions in advanced math. Education is not
learning how Ramses II fought the mosquitoes, or how tall
Napoleon was. Education is not learning what kind of
apple fell upon Newton's head, or how much force is
needed to move a one ton truck five feet. Education is
thinking. If you can't think, you are not educated. All
your facts and figures are useless if you cannot apply
them to a solution. Have you got the right view of high
school education?
*Question - a problem for discussion or under discussion;
a matter for investigation.
Ex:
* Answer - is a response to a question or inquiry that can

be given orally or in written form.


*Enumeration - is a collection of items that is a complete,
ordered listing of all of the items in that collection.
*Combined Method - a method of teaching the deaf in
which features of both the manual method and the oral
method are used. To access the complete Unabridged
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