OK.
Hello everybody.
Let's move forward and talk about the body paragraphs the body paragraphs are the hamburger there the
hamburger meat on the sandwich the meat of the essay The big part of the essay.
All right body paragraphs are actually really straightforward to understand with with with essay writing
in general is not complicated however most people have trouble executing the very simple basis of a
of a essay.
Now I do understand and I do acknowledge that in different parts of the world they write essays differently
and I know this because I've lived and been all over the world I've worked all over the world and sometimes
when I see the way people write essays whether it's in the Middle East or whether how they write in
Brazil so sometimes my Brazilian students they just keep throwing commas in there.
I mean it's crazy karma karma karma commerce.
Come on man you got to stop you know or you know sometimes Mom students from the Middle East have these
huge never ending paragraphs and so a lot of that is cultural and within that culture it's OK to write
that way.
But when it comes to writing for these examinations these timed examinations it's all about your ability
to write according to the standard and they're talking about an American standard or a UK standard or
an Australian standard which is I'm not going to insult them but it's the same as the UK standards basically.
But all all of the standards are pretty much similar.
We have small differences between our countries but the main parts are almost all the same.
So let's look at the body paragraphs
All right.
So I've kind of already been talking about this in terms of what is a body paragraph.
It's the middle section of the essay right.
Is the is the the meat of a cheeseburger OK the body paragraph must be unified coherent and well-developed
when you're asking me how do I get a great score in my writing of an essay.
Are your ideas well developed.
Do your ideas answer the question write not answer the question in your own mind but answer the question
on the face of what you've actually written on the page
so question to you.
Short quiz What does a body paragraph start with I look at your choices there A B C or D what does a
body paragraph start with a transition word a topic sentence an example or details or a thesis statement
right.
Topic sentence everybody starts with a topic sentence what goes next.
In a body paragraph after your topic sentence a concluding sentence the examples and reasons that the
paragraph is going to be about a transition word and concluding sentence or a hook statement right.
The answer is the examples and reasons that the paragraph is going to be about this is your support
of your ideas and your explanations about them and finally what ends each body paragraph a topic sentence
a piece of statement a transition word or a concluding sentence a concluding sentence.
Right now you don't have to do a concluding sentence every single time but I think is a really good
idea to show the ability to do it.
Is this like you don't have the right 20 compound sentences but show the ability to do it correctly.
You don't have to write ten complex sentences.
Show the ability to do it correctly.
All right.
This is our essay format we're talking about the body paragraph topic sentence.
Sometimes you have an explanation of the controlling idea on the topic sentence like if you have a like
remember my essay earlier my introduction my question earlier that was about reasons why people work
and I was one to talk specifically about the idea of social reinforcement.
So that's not that's not obviously a that's not obvious terminology that somehow is going to easily
maybe understand.
So in my second sentence I might explain what social reinforcement is then I have my concrete detail
or example right.
It could be a detail or an example OK.
And then you have to analyze that detail for example.
Number four is the most important thing.
You have to analyze and explain it and then you repeat that process for a second detail.
You have step three and possibly four as they possibly four because it's possible to mix three and four
together and then you have a concluding or transition sentence
right.
So we have those parts.
Now here's our body paragraph format again.
Now one of the most important parts of doing great doing a great body paragraph is explaining details
in these next paragraphs.
I'm not going to read them line by line but I want you to look at the the highlighted lines or the sentences
that are in orange because these paragraphs really explain to you what explanation means right.
You have to really explain your your ideas.
A lot of students mess up and don't understand why they're getting a low score because they just give
a list of details without any explanation without any connection to answering the question and that's
why you're not scoring very well
right.
Look at this example here first uniforms are ugly.
Again this is a simplified version of a paragraph I'm showing you a simple paragraph.
This is not what you are right on your timed exam.
This is just something simple.
So I can explain to you the concept of explanation of a detail.
All right so please don't send me a message and say they don't write paragraphs like I know they don't
write paragraphs like this I'm trying to teach you something.
I'm trying to teach you how to explain yourself first uniforms are ugly and boring.
I don't like the colors they make them look boring.
They have to wear red collared shirts and khaki and khaki pants.
You also have to tuck your shirt into your pants.
Also you have to wear the same thing every day so look at this.
This is just a list of details no explanation now stopped the tape and take a look at this one here.
This is that same information from the previous paragraph.
But we have added explanation
right.
Also students have to tuck in their shirts and pants explanation.
This makes people look ugly since today's style is to wear your shirt on undocked last year we have
lastly we have to wear the same thing everyday so we don't get to show off our regular clothes explanation.
This is a problem because it gets boring to wear the same clothes every day.
It is nice to be able to wear something different each day or to wear something that we want to wear
right explanation.
Everybody this is a simple way.
This is a simple way because sometimes when we tell you you're not explaining you don't get it right.
This is a this this paragraph is a simplified way for you to understand what you need to do you need
to explain yourself.
All right.
This is another example.
This is another non example.
Stop the tape.
Look at it a list of details.
Stop the tape if you need to read.
OK and then we have with explanation.
Look at the difference.
Look at how it looks differently with explanation.
Explanation is what gets you a score.
A really really really high score on the rubric explanation.
Right.