Paragraph Writing Assignment. Stage 1: Pre-writing (5 points). Stage 2: Writing first draft (5 points). Stage 3: Revising/Editing – Writing second draft (5 points). A Paragraph Checklist

Paragraph Writing Assignment

Stage 1: Pre-writing (5 points)

Instructions: A. Think about things, activities, places, or persons that you like or are familiar with, or benefits of something and decide to come up with a topic that you want to write about. Do not copy from the textbook or other sources. You will get NO scores if you copy. Based on the topic of your interest, generate as many ideas as possible using any of the pre-writing techniques.

B. Write an outline of your paragraph based on the ideas from A.

Topic _____________________________________

Topic sentence: _________________________________________________________________

Supporting sentence 1: ___________________________________________________________

Detail(s): ________________________________________________________________________

Supporting sentence 2: ___________________________________________________________

Detail(s): ________________________________________________________________________

Supporting sentence 3: ___________________________________________________________

Detail(s): ________________________________________________________________________

Conclusion: _____________________________________________________________________

Stage 2: Writing first draft (5 points)

C. Write your first draft based on the outline (B).

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Stage 3: Revising/Editing – Writing second draft (5 points)

D. Use the following paragraph checklist to check your first draft.

A Paragraph Checklist

Questions	Yes	No	Somewhat
1. Does the paragraph have a topic sentence?
2. Is the first sentence of the paragraph indented?
3. Does each sentence begin with a capital letter?
4. Does each sentence end with the correct punctuation?
5. Does each new sentence begin next to the one before it?
6. Are all of the words spelled correctly?
7. Are all the subjects and verbs in agreement?
8. Are all of the verbs in the correct tense?
9. Are the sentences in the right order?
10. Does each sentence support the topic?

E. Write your second draft.

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