Types of Essays

Common types of paragraphs and essays

Argumentative Essays / Opinion Essays

Argumentative essays and opinion essays ask the student to take a side on a particular issue and argue or give their opinion of the merits of that particular side. A student might argue their perspective on corporal punishment or explain what they believe happened at a certain event. This style of essay allows greater freedom to interpret facts, statistics, and major sources. However, the writer must be certain that they defend their interpretation forcefully and effectively.

Argumentative or opinion essays are often organized in the following way. They begin with a statement of assertion or opinion, its timeliness, significance, and relevance in relation to some topic. They review critically other authors work about that topic. They illustrate how their assertion or opinion is better (simpler or more explanatory) than the opposing opinion, They use reasons and examples to demonstrate their point of view.

In my opinion, there is really not much difference between argumentative and opinion essays.

Peel Paragraph Writing ....

 

PEEL Paragraph Writing

The PEEL paragraph writing approach is a proven way to help students’ writing process by providing a structure for their writing.

Point
Your first sentence must state your point. It introduces the topic you’re about to discuss and tells the reader what the paragraph is going to be about. This is sometimes called a topic sentence.

Evidence
Support your point with evidence and examples. In the next one or two sentences, give evidence to expand upon and support the point you made. Evidence can include facts, statistics, research findings, quotes from a credible authority or a primary text.
 
Explanation
This is where you show your understanding by explaining in more detail how and why your evidence supports your point. Your explanation should interpret the evidence for the reader.
 
Link
The last sentence should reinforce your original point or link your writing to the next paragraph. The link sentence can provide a transition to the next topic or paragraph.

To improve student written responses see ALARM - A Learning and Responding Matrix
 

Note: The PEEL approach is most effective when your writing is firstcarefully planned. To do this jot down the the key points you are going to make and the evidence and explanations you can use to help support your point.

See also Academic writing

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Examples

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Should Animals Be Kept in Zoos?

​Why Does Volcanic Activity Occur in the Pacific Ring of Fire?

Life

Life is file, it lies on how we keep our file , it depends upon the intelligence of the file holder. It teaches everything even though we know or don't know. Sometimes we know but can't able to overcome what we are doing.
Every one gives suggestions, ideas, informations. Finally we are the responsible people to take responsibility. We should not blame anybody for our position because we are the people what we are today because of yesterday. What we are today we'll be tomorrow..
Ready to face whatever hurdles come in our life.we learn new..eventhogh wilingly or unwillingly we have to face..... Only thing be aware of the situation act according to the what situations demands.........
Life is........

KUBERAGOUD PATIL

Gifted Boy....

I can't believe this boy...His name is Nandish. Poojer.Our school S.D.M.C.president's son...He enjoys my english classes and activities too ..even if I show him how to do the mathematical sums according to the formula he does as a normal boy can do...But he is an abnormal boy...He can't listen and speak ... He does every work given to the class..in every subject ...I really appreciate his anthuciasm,spirit ,interest ,curiosity ,energy and silence ....Always he want convey his thoughts by doing gestures,body language ,miming and murmuring ...God bless him..
             ...Pray for him ..By Shaheeda Hebballi H.p.s. pudakalkatti.

Is watching television waste of time ?

Is watching T.V.waste of time In my opinion it's not ...because it gives a lot of knowledge regarding english language ..by watching news,sports ,movies ,geography ,history etc give us many informations. Nowadays we have so many innovative programs like Koun banega Crorapati,Big Boss etc will give us strength of how to overcome by many troubles and problems ...They help us to increase our self confidence .. We can participate in the competitions likeThut anta heli, Saregamapa,these gives not only so many books but also the information about an authors and how to improve our kannada language .. There were so many religious channels too..which help us to how should we pray God and why should we pray ,what are the right procedures of doing prayer and a proper manner of reciting holy books ..also came to know how our elderly people lived their lives and how we are living now... Hence I will conclude saying with this ...every object is used for good and bad usages ...so using for good is not waste of time .... Have a tremondous thursday ... By Shaheeda Hebballi..

HAPPIEST DAYS OF MY LIFE

                           






                             "Happiness and Sorrow" these are two faces of a coin. Because, every person face

            many troubles, problems in their life. "After long darkness their is light"  So God shows  

            both faces of coin in our life we get many happy moments.

         
             

                          
Happiest day of my life is when I got my job and when I Married to my dream boy. For getting job I have worked very hard. Sometimes, I woke up in the  morning 4 O' clock for completing my work. And prepared myself well for CET exams to give the best of the best. And finally my hard work paid off , I passed my CET and succeed to get  teacher job. So this made me very happy.

 And another Happiest day of my life is my marriage, because I had some expectation for my would be in my mind and I think God fulfilled all my expectation by giving me such a Loving, Caring, Sharing, Helping Husband.

           

                              So these are the two Happiest days of my life.

Inspiration

Man is social animal. He can't live alone, he is surrounded by people. People have feelings, emotions, thoughts, when these will be known to others? Unless and until we inspired by ourselves we can't inspire others. We don't when our life turn.....

Here I am going to share lines from OLD MAN AND THE SEA.." Man may be destroyed but not be defeated "

It's my thought for the day

Who is your good /best teacher??? You may list many names... Even I did same first. But I just thought again, my second thought said that... "Is anybody really can change us??" "Or just influence us?" I answered myself, "Yes... No one can change me! But myself !!" Final answer of mine was "YOU ARE ONLY YOUR FINAL MENTOR''. Others may try to change us, influence, or may inspire us but always the choice is left to us.

Only our voice touches us more. Even if we speak slowly, our ears can hear.... Even deaf can hear his inner voice clearly... But we must list to it calmly . We can't pretend with us... "So... I repeat We Are only can become our best mentor "
Only thing is we must accept our mistakes first..... Then all changes
Are ours. Infact all good changes.

So I said myself... Think twice  but but your choice should  be wise because then only we respect ourselves.

All suggestions and comments  are most welcomed,regarding my  words choice , grammar, etc... So that I can write better next.

My favorite Place ...

Hello teachers ...hope all enjoying our writings of this blogger...I visited to many places in Karnataka and out of Karnataka ....such as pune Mumbai,Mysore, Bengaluru ,  Agra, Fatehpursikri , Ajmer, Goa , Hampi , Halebidu , Badami , Banashankari , Ihole , Pattadakallu , Shravanabelagola , ooty , Jaipur , etc...In these places one of my favorite place is Pink city ...can you guess this city ...yes it's Jaipur...read about this in the below picture ...

My favorite student ...

Hello to one and all. I am Shaheeda here .... All have different favorite student so as I ...by reading you can know about  him. to read see the pic of that article ....

Designing Activities

Activities and games should be new in everyday class. To ensure good result we need to be very creative and innovative. A teacher is suppose to do different activities for the same lesson. The same presentation may limit your professional growth and can also effect the quality education.  Hence it is teachers duty to frame or design new activity by understanding the level of the student. 
    We hope you all are entering the class with different activities and games. Today we want you to post your one of your activities conducted in the class.
   Activity should include objectives, procedure, materials required, expected outcome and conclusion.

Be gentle with yourselves

Find the greatest meaning in whatever you do in your lives. Please be gentle with yourselves and remember that you are larger than anything thing else... And we human being have to so much  to contribute  to this country and the world in different forms. Life is all about excellence much more than ambition. Chase the right things, and right thing always come to you....
-
Mittali sethi
Yes...

Be kind to yourself... Be gentle to yourself...
_Deepa

My favourite poet.....

Adventure

Nothing Or something???? Puzzle universe

It was my serious question to all my  science teachers..I had thought of it when I was at 7th ( as I was very much interested in science I used to ask many questions to my teachers one of those was I discussed here. ) that is" if there is nothing.. What will be the something in the universe???  What exactly nothingness is? But I didn't satisfy with all the replies. So after  many years  I again thought of it and searched.... I got these ideas... From Google

Imagine nothing. Go ahead. What do you see? I picture dark empty space
Nothing is nonsensical. It is impossible to conceptualize nothing— not only no space, time, matter, energy, light, darkness or conscious beings to perceive the nothingness but not even nothingness. In this sense, the question is literally inconceivable.
Nothing is something. It is a logical fallacy to talk about “nothing” as if it were a “something” that ceases to exist. Here we bump up against the problem of defining what we mean by “nothing” and the restrictions that language imposes on the problem. The very act of talking about “nothing” makes it a “something.” Otherwise, what are we talking about?
“nothing” is the natural state of things out of which “something” needs an explanation. Maybe “something” is the natural state of things, and “nothing” would be the mystery to be solved. 
This isn't exactly a question more of an answer than anything, but nothing is in fact something, because nothing exists even as an idea of something that is missing, or void as an not there; But even if it is only an idea, it exists, and because there was nothing before there was what we call "something" there was in ...
“Empty Space” does not mean “nothing”, because you have “space” that is empty, which itself is something.
Still I feel... “Beyond the universe” is not an answerable question.

Today's class

TI conducted an activity for 6th std students that is dailogue conversation among the students...
A chat  with a Grasshopper... I divided class in to  Four groups. They listened Model reading of my voice with the help of mobile voice recorder. That was connected to the speaker .sound was audible. Later on they followed model reading by chunk sentence. really I surprised about  students performance...I came to know conclusion about students talent. 'Students  are not useless They were used less'
Kuberegoud Patil    ELETP 5

Information

Respected Teachers,

           We the ELETP resource persons are very happy and glad to inform you that some of the teachers are actively participating in the blog. We congratulate and give salute to their effort for writing. We are expecting the best out of you in writing.  We will be linking this blog to our state group so you may get appreciation from different sources. The teachers who are not active for more than 20days then the particular teacher may lose the authorship from the blog. So keep on writing.

Thank You......
ELETP

Attitude

Attitude is one of the characters one must has to change according to the situations. Especially in day to day life it it very essential to  update our knowledge as well as skill otherwise we'll be outdated..

Unique ELETP

It is a matter of great joy and experience that this beautiful memories of reflection on ELETP being inculcated in our hearts by respected Co-ordinator madam, Siddu Sir, Gangadhar Sir, Sri Sri Sri Shekhar Guruji and all trainees. The each day of ELETP was rich with the fullness of heart conveying grammar, reading, speaking, writing, phonetics, philosophical teachings as well as spiritual wisdom, in simplest terms along with tasks. The language, expressions, activities and teachings are simple but the content and theme are sublime. This training will certainly prove to be of great benefit to all of us, it is thought and creative provoking. All the RPs have deep interest, keen insight and clear presentation fortell the success of this 30 days' programme. I am thankful and pray God to bless all our RPs always and you all to inspire to seek the real goal of ELETP. Thank you all.......... Chandrahas Patgar....

Small thought

Hello teachers,myself Meenakshi Soudi. Life is short, make it sweet.  Life is short, make it sweet.  So the thought is too short, but it means a lot.

Thank you, made us to think.

Man has unique qualities to express his thoughts . He uses various tools and techniques to convey his / her views to reach listener. Writing is one of the skills through this we may convey our message generation to generations. Every writing make us to think, inspire, motivate, inspite of all it gives pleasure. Initially we do mistake that's common...We will get a chance  to change when we start to write anything related to what we wanted to share our experiences.
Lastly Mistakes increases our experiences. Experiences decreases our mistakes.... KUBERAGOUD PATIL

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Quote for the day

" There will be Obstacles. There will be Doubters. There will be Mistakes. But with Hard Work, There are no Limits"

 - Michael Phelps