The question doss not ask you to express your persona) opinion. Vou wiff be able lo see the reading passage again v/hen it is time lor you to write You may use your notes to help you answer the question. You will have 20 minutes to wrlle your response. | Writing Skill 10 WRITE UNIFIED SUPPORTING PARAGRAPHS A good way to begin writing effective supporting paragraphs in an independent writing task is to study your notes carefully before you begin to write. Then as you write you should think about introducing the main idea of each paragraph supporting the main idea with adequate details and connecting the ideas together in a unified paragraph using cohesive techniques such as repeated key words rephrased key ideas pronouns and determiners for reference and transition expressions . NOTE For further work on cohesion see APPENDIX A. Look at the notes on the first supporting paragraph of the essay and the supporting paragraph that is based on the notes. SUPPORTING PARAGRAPH 1 advantages of working in groups advantages opportunity to learn from others less work for individual members example group project in history four people some know things others don t one quarter of the work for each one The first point I would like to make is that there are strong advantages to working in groups. One benefit of this method of getting things done is that the members of the group can learn from each other. Something else that is good is that the work can be divided among the members of the group. If for example four people have to work in a group to get a 20-page paper done for history class the paper can get done quickly. The reason for this is that different members of the group know different things and each group member has to write only 5 pages. As you read the first supporting paragraph in the essay on working in groups and working individually you should note that the first sentence of the paragraph is a topic sentence that indicates that the first supporting paragraph is about advantages of working in groups and the rest of the sentences are details about this topic. You should also note the techniques that have been used to make the paragraph cohesive. The word benefit is a rephrasing of the key idea advantages the word group
