Putting Paragraph Together
Signposting language
Signposting is not an official grammatical term, Signposting refers to words or phrases that gives the readers as sense of direction that your argument is going. Signposting makes effective points on their own.
Few examples of signposting:
Presenting contrasting ideas/arguments
by contrast, however, on one hand/on the other hand, rather, and in comparison to
Providing different reasons
Alternatively, again, also, additionally, and similarly
Setting up a conclusion
in conclusion, finally, overall, and lastly
Summarizing evidence
to summarizes, in summary, overall
Demonstrating cause and effect
despite, because of
Providing Examples
for instance, for example, namely, and such as
Emphasizing a point
indeed, in fact, furthermore, moreover
Being more specific
in particular, in relation to, more specifically, in terms of
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Topic sentence and staying on topic
Topic sentence acts like a signpost by itself. Almost every paragraph have a topic sentence. Topic sentence in a paragraph is guiding the rest of the paragraph. If the topic sentence is clear, understandable and elaborative the of the paragraph will have its flow.
This website: Purdue Online Writing Lab OWL have discussed Topic Sentence in a great detail along with relevance of ideas, order of ideas, and transitions. Please visit this site for further details.
What, Why, When - So What! In AKU one of the main part of Masters program is reflective paper writing. One need to answer the questions like
What, Why, When and So What to make the paper qualify as a reflective paper.
Signposting is not an official grammatical term, Signposting refers to words or phrases that gives the readers as sense of direction that your argument is going. Signposting makes effective points on their own.
Few examples of signposting:
Presenting contrasting ideas/arguments
by contrast, however, on one hand/on the other hand, rather, and in comparison to
Providing different reasons
Alternatively, again, also, additionally, and similarly
Setting up a conclusion
in conclusion, finally, overall, and lastly
Summarizing evidence
to summarizes, in summary, overall
Demonstrating cause and effect
despite, because of
Providing Examples
for instance, for example, namely, and such as
Emphasizing a point
indeed, in fact, furthermore, moreover
Being more specific
in particular, in relation to, more specifically, in terms of
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Topic sentence and staying on topic
Topic sentence acts like a signpost by itself. Almost every paragraph have a topic sentence. Topic sentence in a paragraph is guiding the rest of the paragraph. If the topic sentence is clear, understandable and elaborative the of the paragraph will have its flow.
This website: Purdue Online Writing Lab OWL have discussed Topic Sentence in a great detail along with relevance of ideas, order of ideas, and transitions. Please visit this site for further details.
What, Why, When - So What! In AKU one of the main part of Masters program is reflective paper writing. One need to answer the questions like
What, Why, When and So What to make the paper qualify as a reflective paper.
(Osmond, 2013)