Parrafos De Illustracion

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The Writer’s World
Paragraphs and Essays, 2/e
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A wisely chosen illustration is essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind.

—HOWARD CROSBY American preacher and educator (1826—1891)

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CONTENTS

Exploring • What Is Illustration? • The Illustration Paragraph • Explore Topics Developing • The Topic Sentence • The Supporting Ideas • The Paragraph Plan • The First Draft Revising andEditing • Revise and Edit an Illustration Paragraph

Vendors offer many examples of a product to interest consumers and to make a sale. In illustration writing, you give examples to support your point.

Writers’ Exchange
Work with a team of two or three other students. You have three minutes to list as many words as you can that are examples of the following parts of speech. Noun Verb AdjectiveAdverb

Teaching Tip:
Ask students to make sentences by mixing and matching the words in the list.They may have to add words to complete their sentences.

Teaching Tip:
The Writers’ Exchange activity can help your students understand illustration. List their ideas on the board.

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PART II

Paragraph Problems

EXPLORING

What Is Illustration?
When you write usingillustration, you include specific examples to clarify your main point. You illustrate or give examples anytime you want to explain, analyze, narrate, or give an opinion about something. As a writer, you can use many different types of examples to help your reader acquire a deeper and clearer understanding of your subject. You can include personal experience or factual information, such as a statistic. Yougive examples every day. When telling a friend why you had a good day or a bad day, you might use examples to make your story more interesting. At college, you might give an oral presentation using examples that will help your audience better understand your point. At work, you might give examples to show clients where or how they might market their products.

Teaching Tip:
Divide studentsinto small groups. Have them brainstorm real-life types of writing where giving examples would help support a point.

Teaching Tip:
Ask students to identify and number the examples the author has used.

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You can develop illustration essays with a series of examplesor extended examples.

The Illustration Paragraph
User Community:
“The different rhetorical modes and their step by step approaches are very effectively presented and I have tried them in my classroom. Many students have seen the structure of each mode and found the differences clearly.” —Basudha Sengupta, DIABLO VALLEY COLLEGE

There are two ways to write an illustration paragraph. Use a...