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Monday, February 02, 2009

A Message for Mr. Zorro

As I understand it from my brother Ray who is a teacher of Psychology, one has to stimulate the neurons in the brain to keep sharp, so I am presenting this minor challenge to Mr. Zorro and any other reader of this blog who wishes to participate. The following paragraph is about THE TOPOGRAPHY OF JAPAN. What do you MEAN you don't care about the topography of Japan?? That is not the point. The subject matter of the paragraph is not important. It is the STYLE of the writing that you should be learning about. There are THREE different ways to write a paragraph. They are as follows:
1. A Topic sentence supported by DETAILS
2. A Topic sentence supported by POINTS
3. A Topic sentence supported by EXAMPLES
Here is the paragraph----Good luck.

The Topography of Japan

Two aspects of Japan's topography have a significant effect on its population density . First, Japan consists of four main islands and over 3900 smaller islands. Many of these smaller islands are uninhabitable. A second aspect of topography that has contributed to the high population density is that 72% of Japan is covered by mountains. This leaves only 377,728 square kilometres of its surface for its over 120 million people to live. The result is that Japan has been left with a population density of 316 people for every square kilometre, one of the most densely populated countries in the world.

There you have it. Now which category of paragraph style does this paragraph about Japan fall into. #1,#2,#3) If you had the book Writing For Results, I would now ask you to do the next exercise which is to take a paragraph about Japan and rewrite it. The only problem is, this paragraph is all mixed up and your job is to put the sentences in the right order! Since you do not have the book, I will write the paragraph for you in my next blog and you can send me an e-mail with the paragraph written correctly. THEN, your next job AFTER THAT>.......Are you ready for this.....You then have to write a paragraph (just one----only one little paragraph about your OWN country using a topic sentence and one of the patterns(details, points, or examples) and E_MAIL YOUR PARAGRAPH TO ME (leocoleman@rocketmail.com) Now, if after all of this, you simply ignore the whole thing, I will not go and do this much work EVER AGAIN. You do not have to be Mr. Zorro only to e-mail me your answer or your paragraph. I WILL answer. Remember my motto: There is no hope for a __ __ __ __ !!

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