Using your checklist for evaluating a website, conduct some research to find out important details about the famous person you admire.
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Description
Lesson 1, Activity 2: Information
Paragraph
Writing an Information Paragraph
In the next
activity, you will be expected to write an information paragraph. Here are some
key details about the information paragraph you should keep in mind:
An information paragraph:
- Gives
the reader facts about one aspect of a person, a place, an event, an
activity or a natural or scientific phenomenon, or
- Explains
how something works, or
- Gives
instructions for how to do something.
Parts of the
Information Paragraph:
- A topic
sentence that gives the reader a sense of the main idea of your paragraph,
- At
least four supporting details:
- state
your point
- illustrate
it with a supporting detail
- explain
how that detail supports your topic sentence,
- Transition
words like “First” and “then” and “because” , and
- A
concluding sentence that summarizes your main idea.
The following
interactive will help you write an information paragraph.
Long Description
Using your checklist for
evaluating a website, conduct some research to find out important details about
the famous person you admire. You will be writing an information
paragraph that identifies the different traits that your role model
has and explains how he or she has demonstrated these traits. You must cite
at least three different sources within your paragraph using APA
format for in-text citations. Your audience for this paragraph is your peers
and your purpose is to inform.
Along with your
paragraph, you will submit a reference page that lists three
sources you used in APA format, and a copy of the checklist you
used.
