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1st Meeting Quiz - A Review of A Paragraph Writing and An Essay Introduction

This document provides guidance on organizing paragraphs and essay structure from the book "The essentials of academic writing for international students" by S. Bailey. [1] A typical paragraph is 5-7 sentences long and has an introductory sentence, 2-3 supporting sentences, and a concluding sentence. Transitional phrases are used to link sentences and guide the reader. [2] An example paragraph is analyzed to identify its main point, supporting details, and transitional language. It discusses the benefits of homeownership and is linked to the previous paragraph with the phrase "Despite this". [3] Students are asked to reorder sentences from a mixed-up paragraph about the 2008 financial crisis challenging claims about home

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1st Meeting Quiz - A Review of A Paragraph Writing and An Essay Introduction

This document provides guidance on organizing paragraphs and essay structure from the book "The essentials of academic writing for international students" by S. Bailey. [1] A typical paragraph is 5-7 sentences long and has an introductory sentence, 2-3 supporting sentences, and a concluding sentence. Transitional phrases are used to link sentences and guide the reader. [2] An example paragraph is analyzed to identify its main point, supporting details, and transitional language. It discusses the benefits of homeownership and is linked to the previous paragraph with the phrase "Despite this". [3] Students are asked to reorder sentences from a mixed-up paragraph about the 2008 financial crisis challenging claims about home

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Reference of this quiz: Bailey, S. (2015).

The essentials of academic writing for international


students. Routledge.1.10. Organizing Paragraphs

20202-EW- 1st Meeting Quiz- A review of A Paragraph Writing and an Essay


Introduction

A. Paragraph structure
Question Your Answer

What is the normal length of a paragraph?

Is there a standard structure for


paragraphs?

How is a paragraph linked together?

B. Read the next paragraph from the same essay and answer the questions
below.
Despite this, many countries encourage the growth of homeownership. Ireland and
Spain, for instance, allow mortgage payers to offset payments against income tax. It is
widely believed that owning your own home has social as well as economic benefits.
Compared to renters, homeowners are thought to be more stable members of the
community who contribute more to local affairs. In addition, neighborhoods of owner-
occupiers are considered to have less crime and better schools. But above all,
homeownership encourages saving and allows families to build wealth.
1. Analyze the paragraph by completing the left-hand column in the table below with
the following types of sentences: Supporting point 1), Supporting point 2), Supporting
point 3), Example, Main reason, Topic.
2. Underline the words and phrases used to link the sentences together.
3. Which phrase is used to link this paragraph to the one before?
Statement/Sentence Your Answer

Despite this, many countries encourage the


growth of homeownership.

Ireland and Spain, for instance, allow mortgage


payers to offset payments against income tax.

It is widely believed that owning your own home


has social as well as economic benefits.

Compared to renters, homeowners are thought Supporting point 1 (example)


to be more stable members of the community
who contribute more to local affairs.

In addition, neighborhoods of the owner-


occupiers are considered to have less crime and
better schools.

But above all, homeownership encourages


saving and allows families to build wealth.

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C. Development of ideas
1) The sentences below form the third paragraph of the same essay, but they have been mixed
up. Use the table below to put them in the correct order.
(i) When this burst, millions of people lost their homes, which for many had contained their
savings. (ii) These mortgages had been developed to allow higher-risk poorer families to buy
their own homes, but this contributed to a property price bubble.
(iii) Many economists now argue that there is a maximum level of homeownership that should
not be exceeded.
(iv) All these claims were challenged by the economic crash of 2008, which was largely caused
by defaults on American sub-prime mortgages.
(v) Even households that had positive equity still felt poorer and reduced their spending.
(vi) Others were trapped in their houses by negative equity, in other words, their houses were
worth less than they had paid for them.
2) Underline the phrase used to link the paragraph to the previous one.
3) Underline the words and phrases used to link the sentences together.
Task Your Answer

Topic sentence All these claims were challenged by the


economic crash of 2008, which was largely
caused by defaults on American sub-prime
mortgages

Definition

Result 1

Result 2

Result 3

Conclusion

D. Introducing paragraphs and linking them together


Use the information below to write a paragraph Your Paragraph
about Bill Gate and please use the Introducing
paragraphs and linking words on page 70-71
(Bailey,2015)

● 1955 Bill Gates was born, the second child Please write here……...
in a middle-class Seattle family.
● 1968 At age 13, he became interested in
writing computer programs.
● 1975 Gates and his school friend Allen
started a programming business called
Micro-Soft.
● 1980 IBM asked Microsoft to write an
operating system (called MS-DOS) for its
new PC.
● 1985 Microsoft launched Windows operating
system.
● 1995 Gates became the richest man in the
world.
● 2006 He stepped down from working at
Microsoft to focus on his charitable
foundation.

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Use the notes below to write two paragraphs Your Paragraph
on the subject of ‘trams’. Use conjunctions
to organize the paragraphs, and a suitable
phrase to introduce and link the paragraphs
together.

● Trams (streetcars in the USA) were first Please write here……...


developed in the late nineteenth century.
● They provided cheap and convenient mass
transport in many cities.
● Rail-based systems were expensive to
maintain.
● Fixed tracks meant that the system was
inflexible.
● During the 1950s–1960s, many European
and Asian cities closed tram systems.
● Today, trams are becoming popular again.
● Some cities (e.g. Paris and Manchester) are
building new systems.
● Trams are less polluting than cars and
cheaper to operate.
● Problems remain with construction costs
and traffic congestion blocking tracks.
● The expense of building modern tramways
means that they remain controversial.

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