3-4. Synthesizing Information and Composing an effective paragraph

Is collecting new information to form new thoughts and ideas in order to evolve our thinking. ______ SYnthesizing a text is the process of pulling together backround knowledge,newly learned ideas,connections,inferences,and grows as a reader gets deeper into the text

Synthesizing

Make synthesizing easy with the use of what method?

ADD

A ____ is a group of related sentences that develop main idea

Paragraph

Effective paragraph must have a ?

Topic sentence,Supporting Sentences,and Concluding Sentence

It is a complete sentence that expresses the main idea of the paragraph. It is usually the first sentence in a paragraph

Topic Sentence

They give details about the topic.They provide information by citting an example,evidence,relevantfact,reason,incident and specific information

Supporting Sentences

It signals the end of the paragraph and remids the reader of the main idea. It summarizes the main points or restates the topic sentence in different words.

Concluding Sentence

The four essential elements of a paragraph

Clear topic sentence,Unity,Coherence, and Adequate development

All the sentences in the paragraph are related to the topic sentence

Unity

Ideas are connected through logical orders and signal devices

Coherence

It describes,explains,and supports the topic sentence

Adequate Development

Are one of the basic parts of a paragraph

Transition SIgnals

Does Concluding sentence restates the topic sentence? Yes or No

Yes

Does Paragraph unity means all sentences support the main idea? Yes or No

Yes

Transition signals help in comparing and contrasting. Yes or No

Yes

Focusing on a single topic helps in achieving coherence. Yes or No

No

Does a topic sentence always at the beginning of a paragraph.Yes or No

No