There are many ways to begin writing - I usually recommend just making a list of everything you know and turning the facts into sentences.
Here are some more formal ways to start thinking about your paragraph:
- Analogy - list ways that your topic is like something else
- Analysis - explain how your topic works in detail
- Anecdotes - tell a story to explain your topic
- Cause and Effect - explain how your topic causes other things to occur; OR explain how your topic is caused by other things
- Classification and Division - list all of the things that go into your topic
- Compare and Contrast - list all the ways in which your two topics are alike and all the ways in which they are different
- Definition - list each definition for your topic (you can also list things which your topic is NOT, which is called Elimination, but this is seldom used)
- Description - list everything you can use to describe your topic
- Enumeration - list a set of observations about your topic
- Exemplification - list all of the examples of your topic
- Facts - list all of the facts you have looked up about your topic
- Narration - list the events that make up your topic in chronological order
- Persuasion - list arguments that might make a reader take an action or believe in your opinion
- Process - describe step-by-step how the actions in your topic may be carried out in sequence
- Statistics - list all of the statistics you have looked up about your topic
Click on the Related Questions to learn even more about each type of development!
More from out Wiki Contributors:
- At school we use TEEL's to write our paragraph.
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- T-topic sentence.
- E-evidence.
- E-explanation for your evidence.
- L-link the conclusion back to your topic sentence.