Rough Draft of Body Paragraph 1
1] Review the lecture on the Perfect Paragraph, answer the questions, and then use the outline below to create body paragraph #1.
Remember that your paragraph is a minimum of 10 sentences. Each of the sentences is outlined below. Each sentence must be a complete sentence with a subject, verb and complete thought with a period at the end.
Put your paragraph into correct paragraph format. If you don’t know what that is, go to modules and click on week 3 and you’ll find a link to paragraph format to help you.
Body paragraph #1 is about conscious decision making.
Context is the information you give before the quote that helps the quote make sense. The minimum context is the author states or Gladwell tells us, something like that.
PART A:
1. What is conscious decision making?
2. Why do people often prefer conscious decision making?
3. Are there any issues that might make conscious decision making problematic?
Part B
Making conscious decisions – write down 6 reasons a person might want to engage in conscious decision making
1] 4]
2] 5]
3] 6]
Problems making conscious decisions – write down 6 reasons a person might make an error or have a problem with conscious decision making
1] 4]
2] 5]
3] 6]
Part C:
Circle one idea from the top group and 2 ideas from the bottom group to write about.
Create your topic sentence to include a reason why people prefer conscious decision making but that there are 2 reasons why this type of decision making is problematic.
Now complete the following for your three ideas
Transition + idea #1 that people like conscious decision making because
Context + Quote from text supporting the above idea:
Explanation of how quote supports your idea:
Transition + idea #2 that conscious decision making may be faulty because
Context + Quote from text supporting the idea:
Explanation of how quote supports your idea:
Transition + idea #3 another idea why conscious decision making may be faulty is
Context + Quote from text supporting the idea:
Explanation of how quote supports your idea:
Part D: Put your sentences together into a well formatted paragraph to create body paragraph 1
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