OK.
Let's go ahead and move forward with looking at some examples of written body paragraphs.
Now when we get to these body paragraphs what I suggest you do is to just stop the screen and read through
the body paragraph read through it at your own pace.
Right.
Look at the language.
Look at the sentences.
Look at how.
Look at how the ideas are connected together.
Look at how it did the body paragraph is being used to answer the question.
OK.
But that's what you're going to want to do.
Stop the tape read the body paragraph
remember a body paragraph is an inverted pyramid right.
It's an inverted pyramid.
When you're writing a proper body paragraph a proper body paragraph it should fall into an inverted
pyramid.
Here's that agree or disagree.
Question and this is the one with the four time students spending most of their time studying they should
be doing other things.
And I disagree.
And this is the bottom paragraph on that.
I disagree because a high GPA requires a student to only focus on their studying.
Right.
So what you could do right now is you can stop the tape and read through this well actually I'll go
ahead and read this one for you.
Now these markings that you see T.S. is for topic sentence detail number one d a d One is detail the
number one and then we have the explanation of detail number one and then I'm going to explain that
example then detail number two explain detail number two that a concluding sentence this is this is
the reason why you only need to only need to do two body paragraphs.
OK.
This is the reason why you only have to do two body paragraphs.
So let's take a look at it.
Despite the desire to participate in outside activities university students must only focus on their
coursework.
Because a high GPA requires dedicated effort.
The reading requirements for GPA excellence require a significant amount of course time invested in
those areas.
A highly intelligent colleague of mine played sports participated in multiple clubs and into his college
career with a 2.0 average because he could not keep up with the course readings.
As this example informs us doing other activities cannot outweigh utilizing all the available time to
study.
Since the results will be a low GPA notwithstanding the previous argument group study time with last
me necessitates a sole focus on coursework.
A student can have five different study groups that meet each week and participating in outside labors
diminishes group availability thereby decreasing the GPA reading and group requirements to attain a
higher GPA.
Demonstrate why time must not be wasted outside of the classroom
and here is a big screen example of it for you guys and you can do it again.
Stop the tape and read through it at your own pace.
Here is an excerpt.
To what extent do you agree or disagree.
Question This is the question about the qualities a person needs to be successful.
Can not be learned at university and I mainly agree.
So if you've ever.
If you if you have ever thought about writing this type of question where you mainly agree or mainly
disagree.
This is how it's done OK.
So please stop the tape and read through this introduction of how you introduction this body paragraph
and actually it would be better if you just stopped the tape right here read it in the big version.
Right.
But this is how you would write a paragraph if you mainly agree or mainly disagree
right.
Here is a.
To what extent do you agree or disagree where I.
This is the second body paragraph.
Why.
Partly agree with the other side.
So again Stop the tape.
Read carefully through to see how I am partly agreeing with the other side
when you read this.
You get a really clear idea of my position right.
Even when I'm presenting the side that I partly agree with I'm calling it a weaker right.
So you're really clear about the side that I really agree with.
All right.
Here is the.
To what extent do you agree or disagree.
Body one.
And this is the one about the postgraduate research.
It should only be given the reason to get should only be given to science.
Or should that be given to other topics.
As you know I said give it to other topics.
This is divided paragraph about art so you can go ahead and take your time and read through this body
paragraph by stopping the tape.
This is the opinion.
Oh now some of you may be saying well where's the second body paragraph.
Everybody in the later lectures in the later lectures.
I'd give you the full essay right.
I give you the full essay.
All we're doing here is I'm pointing out to you that different parts of a body paragraph right.
So that you know if you're doing it correctly you would have all these different body parts to a body
does these parts to a body paragraph.
That's why they're highlighted in yellow everybody.
OK.
That's why they're highlighted in yellow so you can see the different parts.
But in the later lectures I'm going to show you the entire essay.
OK.
The entire essay this body paragraph is about medical advancements.
All right.
This is the one about whether only doing homework is a good or bad thing and I say a bad thing.
And this is the body paragraph.
This talking about playing.
So this is the second body paragraph everybody.
The second body paragraph again you may ask.
Ask me whereas the first body paragraph everybody I'm not I'm not able to show you the full essay in
this structured format.
We're only focusing on one paragraph so that you can look at the outline and then look at how you write
the body paragraph in the later lectures.
We're going to be able to look at the entire essay.
OK.
If you don't want if you don't want to look at or you're not interested in looking at an outline and
how a body paragraph is written specifically and you want to look at the full essays what you want to
do is go ahead and skip and go to the later lectures and his look at the full essays.
Right.
When you look at the full essays it doesn't have this kind of detailed explanation about what the different
sentences are.
But that's what you want to do if you want to just look at full essays only.
All right here's this paragraph where you can again stop it and look at it.
Here's a discuss both sides question where we have the second body paragraph in the opinion separated.
So again you can look at the question look at the outline.
Look at the body paragraphs.
So you can really see how this works.
This is a another disadvantage advantage question about comparing your way of life with that of your
parents.
Which one would you prefer.
Here we're doing it in terms of what comparing it with categories.
So this is this body paragraph and this the body paragraph on comparing my generation versus my parents
generation in terms of opportunities for minorities.
So go ahead and take a look at this.
Take a look at this body paragraphs.
You can see how it's written.
And here it is in terms of discussing of this the one advantage disadvantage question dealing with bringing
your family with you overseas.
OK.
And this first body paragraph was talking about the advantages.
OK.
Now again look at this paragraph very carefully so you can see how I'm writing and now with this one.
What's really interesting is look at the sentences highlighted in orange right.
I wrote this bloody paragraph a little bit differently.
To show you another way to write a body paragraph in the second sentence I introduce detail one in detail
to and then does it in the sentences afterwards.
I explain explained detail one and then explained detail to this is actually a really great way to write
a body paragraph.
And so I just want to give you an example of really how to do that if you wanted to.
And here is the disadvantage is paragraph and again we're introducing the detail one in detail two together
in the second sentence and then we explained detail one and then we explained detail to right.
So this is a great way to write body paragraphs.
I really like doing it this way.
I think it's it simplifies it a little bit for students.
But I want to show you at least one essay I'm doing it this way it's a little bit different than most
of you have seen before but it's actually a really effective way to write body paragraphs
and here is our two part question.
Right.
And so we're going to this is the body paragraph talking about other factors.
Now one thing I want you to look at here and the reason why these sentences are highlighted in orange
is look at the coherence.
Look how we're connecting all the all the sentences together from one to the next.
This is what it means by coherence.
This is what it means by connecting ideas together.
This is what really really impresses the graders
and this is the specific paragraph talking about social reinforcement.
So stop the tape.
Take a look at it read it.
Let me know if you have any questions about it
this is a problem solution question is talking about loss of community and what's the problem with loss
of community.
And what measures can we take to overcome those problems.
So this paragraph specifically talks about the problems.
Stop the tape or take a look at it.
Here is an opinion essay and this this is the well this is the brand new and actually this is a new
one for you guys.
The automobile and the airplane are important inventions of the 20th century.
Both of these inventions have added him an important effect on our lives.
Choose another invention right.
So for this one I chose the actual computer.
And this is a body paragraphs specific specifically about communication and the benefits of communication
from the computer
so if you have any questions about those body paragraphs please let me know.
Now in the upcoming lectures you're going to be able to see the full essays.
You can see how we put all the different parts together.
So thank you so so much for joining us in this body paragraphs lecture.
I hope you're able to read our body paragraphs and learn a lot from those body paragraphs.
If you have any questions please ask please don't hesitate to ask and I'll talk to you later.