Effective Paragraph
    • An effective paragraph         1    • Unified
       should be unified, 
       coherent, systematically      2    • Coherent
       organized and well                 •
       developed.                    3      Systematically 
                                            organized
                                          • Well-
                                     4      developed 
                                            (sufficient 
                                            support)
        Which one is a unified paragraph?
      Paragraph A                                 Paragraph B
      • Club Palm Resort's beaches are            • For vacationers sick and tired of the 
         beautiful, and the surrounding              frozen north, a week at Club Palm 
         countryside is quite scenic. The quality    Resort can provide just the 
         of the food leaves a lot to be desired.     midwinter benefits they need. Club 
         Many vacationers enjoy the variety of       Palm Resort's beaches are beautiful, 
         outdoor activities and the instruction      and the surrounding countryside is 
         available in such sports as sailing and     quite scenic. Many vacationers also 
         scuba diving. Unfortunately, security is    enjoy the variety of outdoor activities 
         poor; several vacationers' rooms have       and the instruction available in such 
         been broken into and their valuables        sports as sailing and scuba diving. 
         stolen. Christmas in the Bahamas can        Christmas in the Bahamas can make 
         make the thought of New Year's in           the thought of New Year's in 
         Chicago bearable.                           Minneapolis bearable.
                 The unified paragraph is:   □ Paragraph A     □ Paragraph B
        Which one is the coherent paragraph?
      Paragraph C                                 Paragraph D
      • Club Palm Resort's isolation created      • Club Palm Resort's isolation 
         dissatisfaction among some 
         vacationers. Many people expect to          created dissatisfaction 
         be able to go out for a meal if they        among some vacationers. 
         feel like it, but the club's location far   The quality of the food was 
         from populated areas made that              poor. People want a choice 
         impossible. To make matters worse, 
         the quality of the food was poor. The       of entertainment in the 
         isolated location also forced people        evening. Most of us spent 
         to spend all their time together-day        too much time together day 
         after day. By evening nearly                after day. People expect to 
         everyone was ready for a choice of 
         food, entertainment, and company.           be able to go out for a meal 
                                                     if they feel like it.
                 The coherent paragraph is:   □ Paragraph C     □ Paragraph D
           Which paragraph is well-developed?
                                                  Paragraph F
       Paragraph E                                A midwinter vacation at Club Palm Resort has 
       •   A vacation at Club Palm Resort         its good points and bad points. The beaches 
           has its good points and bad            are clean and uncrowded. The surrounding 
           points.  People need to weigh          countryside is lush and soothing to winter-
           the good points and bad                weary eyes. Furthermore, being able to take 
           points before they choose to           sailing and scuba diving lessons, while friends 
           go there. The beaches are              back home shovel snow, makes the outdoor 
           nice, but they may not be              activities extra-enjoyable. On the other hand, 
           enough for some vacationers.           several features of Club Palm Resort are 
                                                  substandard. The food is poor, and, because 
                                                  the club is isolated, eating elsewhere is 
                                                  impossible. Security could also be better, as 
                                                  thefts from several guests' rooms indicated. So, 
          The unified paragraph is:               for some vacationers, nice scenery and fun 
          □ Paragraph E                           activities may not be enough to offset the 
          □ Paragraph F                           possibility of poor service and lax security.
        Which Paragraph is the most systematically 
                                     organized
    Paragraph G                                Paragraph H
                                               The Dog is a pet animal. It is one of the 
    Horses are farm animals used to carry      most obedient animals. There are many 
    heavy loads. We can find horses in the     kinds of dogs in the world. Some of the are 
    farm, helping farm owners to do the        very friendly while some of them a 
    farm works. The farmers also use horses    dangerous. Dogs are of different color like 
    to carry people and goods from one         black, red, white and brown. Some old 
    place to another. No wonder, horses are    them have slippery shiny skin and some 
    known as beasts of burden.  Horses live    have rough skin. Dogs are carnivorous 
                                               animals. They like eating meat. They have 
    in a stable. They are very useful          four legs, two ears and a tail. Dogs are 
    animals.                                   trained to perform different tasks. They 
                                               protect us from thieves and  guarding our 
                                               house. They are loving animals. A dog is 
   The systematically organized paragraph is:  called man's best friend. They are used by 
                                               the police to find hidden things. They are 
   □ Paragraph G                               one of the most useful animals in the 
   □ Paragraph H                               world.