Writing Topic 1

Parents in each culture have customary ways of training their children. What methods do many parents in your culture use to train their children? Limit your topic to young children in elementary school.

Steps to follow:

  • Reread Paragraph Essentials
  • Free write for several minutes just to help yourself with ideas for the above topic.
  • Outline your own paragraph (You may want to review the outline for the sample paragraphs)
  • On your outline, make sure you have two major categories of support and then give specific details, explanations or examples for each one.
  • Write your first draft.
  • Read it over carefully for meaning and coherence
  • Edit your paragraph

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