Paragraph 

May be we have known about paragraph in our previous school, in senior high school or other grade of school . We know that a paragraph contains of some sentences and that sentences consist of a topic sentence and some supporting sentences. Topic sentence is the main idea or the theme of a paragraph. It is usually put in the beginning of paragraph. The source mentions that a good paragraph only has a topic sentence. A topic sentence use to inform the reader what writer will be discussed in the paragraph.  And supporting sentence consists of some sentences which explain the main idea. It explains details and specific examples of the main idea and also the conclusion of the paragraph.

There are many kind of paragraph, that are narration, exposition, description, definition, comparison, process analysis, and persuasion. Narration is a kind of paragraph that tells us an event which happened in the past. It can be a fictive or real event, and it has some characters, a setting, conflicts, and resolution.

 Exposition is a kind of paragraph that explains something. I’m not sure it can be called explanation or not, but it shows the details of an incident.

Definition is paragraph that defines something in writer’s story to find the meaning of something, but it is not based on the dictionary but it based on the writer’s language or based on the writer’s world. And description is similar with definition but it is different. Description is describing something by the appearance, what writer saw and writer  tries to show us by inviting us to imagine the object with his or her own words.

Comparison is a paragraph that compares two or more things, it usually compares the benefits of the things. And process analysis is a paragraph that shows the process happen. It is usually followed by some steps. And the last is persuasion, this paragraph is to persuade people to do something or to influence their mind.

that is my understanding about paragraph and their types, please give your comments according to your understanding about paragraph and their types. Thank you. J