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One Idea Paragraph
In this type of paragraph, you present an idea, and the remainder of your paragraph focuses
on explaining this idea. Or for a longer paragraph you may have two ideas.
In this type of paragraph you use these to support your ideas:
Reasons, Examples, Results
You can follow the pattern of idea, reason, example, result (or variations of these) to write
your paragraph.
This is a method that provides you with a structure that you can use to brainstorm your ideas,
that helps you to extend and support them, and that also provides you with a rough outline at
the same time. Overall, this
speeds up
the planning process
.
To explain this, let’s look at a common problem. Many students write lots of general ideas,
but do not support them properly because they have not planned.
Imagine that you have this essay question:
There have been major advances in technology over recent decades
and this has led to significant improvements in people’s lives.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Look at this example of what a candidate has written in a
body paragraph
about the benefits
of advances in technology in support of the statement:
Our lives are much more convenient. In addition, the speed of modern devices
means we have more time to do things in our free time. Our time is saved which
is beneficial to us. Technological devices are also easily available because they
can be found cheaply these days in most shops.
In this example, the candidate has given 4 or 5 ideas (
convenience; speedy modern devices;
more time; availability of devices; cheapness of devices
), but none of them have been
explained properly and there is repetition.
All it does is create more questions:
How are our lives more convenient?
What kinds of devices give us more free time and how?
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Why is our time being saved beneficial?
Which are easily available (many are not)?
Ideas should be clear, not ambiguous.
Paragraphs like this are common to see from candidates who have not planned properly and
do not know how to extend their ideas. Each one of these ideas could be extended into a full
body paragraph.
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