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Language Arts:
Grammar and Usage
 
0007 Demonstrate Command of Standard Usage
 
0008 Mechanical Conventions
 
Language Arts:
Writing
 
0009 Purpose and Audience
 
0010 Unity, Focus, Development, and Organization
Organizational Methods
Thesis Statements
Point of View
 
0011 Editing and Revision Strategies
 
0012 Recognizing Effective Communication
 
Practice Writing Tests
 
0013 Prepare an Organized, Developed Composition
 

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0010 Understand Unity, Focus, Development, and Organization in Writing

Identify Organizational Methods Used by the Author of a Passage

Good college writing is expected to be well developed. You should have plenty of support for your main points in any piece of writing.

In general, you can develop a main idea with:

  • reasons,
  • concrete details,
  • specific examples,
  • facts,
  • statistics, and
  • incidents or narratives.  

Most essays use a variety of these methods. Unfortunately, there is no magic number of supporting sentences required to support a main idea; you are expected to use your judgment, tempered by your experience.

Generally, introductory and concluding paragraphs are considerably shorter than body paragraphs. In general, body paragraphs that are very short — one to three sentences — are not well-developed and are not acceptable in college-level writing.

 


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