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Essay Writing 14-25
Exercise 1: Identifying Differences between a Paragraph and an Essay
Possible answer:
Areas of Differences The paragraph The essay
Length The paragraph is short, consisting
Introduction of only a few sentences. The essay is longer as it consists
The introductory part of the para- of several paragraphs.
Supporting details graph is the f irst sentence, which
is the topic sentence. The introductory part of the essay
Conclusion is the whole f irst paragraph. This
The paragraph has three supporting introductory paragraph can be
points. Each supporting point is divided into two parts. The first
expressed in one sentence. part gives some background
leading to the main point (in this
There is only one concludin case, the writer talks about his or
sentence at the end of the para- her conversation with students).
graph. The other part is the last sentence,
which presents the main idea of
the essay.
There are two levels of supporting
detail. Overall, the essay has three
supporting points. Each point is
presented in a paragraph, so the
three supporting paragraphs all
develop the same main idea.
At the paragraph level, each para-
graph starts with a topic sentence
and the following sentences
develop and support the point
presented in the f irst sentence of
the paragraph.
The last paragraph is the conclusion
of the essay. Before getting to the
concluding sentence at the end,
the writer gives a few details and
examples which sum up the main
points being raised in the body.
