文档介绍：Ways of Developing Paragraphs
Paragraph development
Topic sentence (controlling idea)
Supporting details (major & minor)
Details (factual, example or illustration, descriptive)
Orders (time, space, general-specific, specific-general, climax)
Patterns (narration, process, definition, classification, comparison & contrast, cause & effect, analogy)
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Identification of details
details: highly informative & persuasive (facts, events, statistics), for example:
Having smoke detectors on guard in your home can save your life—it’s as simple as that. According to the . Consumer Products mission, over 75% of all home fire deaths take place while people are asleep. While smoke alarms will not extinguish(熄灭) fires, the alarm they send out will wake you up, increasing your chances of getting up, getting out and calling the fire department. If you are one of those people
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who think fires happen only to “other people”, consider that more than 6,000 people who die and that over 300,000 people who are injured from fires each year who also thought it happened only to “others” before their fire occurred. Smoke detectors are simple to install and moderately (适度地) priced. Properly placed, they will help to keep you out of the nation’s fire statistics.
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2. Descriptive details
To convey an impression—how something looked, smelled, tasted. For example:
Few people know the basic facts about diamonds. They consist of pure crystallized (结晶) carbon (元素) and are usually found in the form of crystals. e in many shapes: some have eight faces; others have forty-eight. Diamonds are the hardest substance known, and for this reason acids do not affect them. They are, however, brittle (易碎) and can be split. To polish diamonds one must use oil and diamond powder.
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3. Illustrations & Examples
For example:
Diamonds have lured many people into trouble. The famous Nikolas Verden stole the Khybar stone from a shop in Amste