Paragraph writing

[Anonymous]

Good morning Lecturer,

Lecturer can you help me how to write in paragraph writing on this topic :-

"How you feel being a distance learning student (on-line learning) at Ohio University"


Thank you.

[Pete]

Good morning Lecturer,

Lecturer can you help me how to write in paragraph writing on this topic :-

"How you feel being a distance learning student (on-line learning) at Ohio University"


Thank you.
First you need to decide how you do feel (you like it; you think it makes learning difficult; you enjoy the flexibility it offers; you find the technical details frustrating; ...; ...). Then think up a single sentence that summarizes this feeling; use this as your first sentence (i.e. the topic sentence).

Then you come up with a series of "detail" sentences. Each of these sentences says something to support your first sentence. I read one book that suggested that each of these should give one of the following: proof, further information, or an example. It is good if these sentences follow some sort of logical sequence, but the important part is that your reader sees how each of them supports the idea of the first sentence (or maybe supports the preceding detail sentence).

Finally, you summarize the main idea in a concluding sentence. Of course this may be similar to the first sentence, but it ought to express at least a bit of how the "detail" sentences supported that first sentence. Since it is the last sentence your reader sees, it should give the impression that you want the reader to get.

That's it. You have you paragraph.