Opinion Paragraphs 의견 단락 - The Writing Desk HD

We take a look at how to write a simple opinion paragraph. Today, we are looking at opinion paragraphs. Feel free to pause this video if it’s too fast. You will likely be asked to express your opinion in the form of a paragraph, which is what we will be looking at in this video. The point of an opinion paragraph is to show whether you agree or disagree with a certain topic and to try and convince your reader into agreeing with your ideas, so you should be well informed and convincing. You need to support your idea with facts and examples. Just saying something is great multiple times does not help your argument. This is for a single paragraph. I will look at multiple paragraph essays in the future. Think. Before writing, plan a bit. Think of at least 3 ideas that support your opinion. Write them down somewhere so that you don’t forget. Expressing your opinion is simple, once you know what your opinion about something is. If you are unsure, please research. If you can see here, I have selected 3 different points, all of which I think are positive things, so I am going with the point of view that electric cars are generally a good thing. Your paragraph will begin with your topic sentence. A topic sentence introduces the topic - the thing that you are writing about, and a controlling idea. For an opinion paragraph, the controlling idea is your OPINION. Now, make that opinion clear and make it interesting for the reader. Saying something is good or bad is a very weak way of expressing your belief. Try and focus on something specific. Let’s have a look at two contrasting opinions. We can see that the topic sentence is largely the same, except for the point of view of the writer. The rest of your paragraph will support not only the topic but your controlling idea. Also, the use of should and must help express how strongly someone feels about that topic. Supporting sentences. This is where you give examples, facts, and reasons to support your opinion. These consist of the ideas you came up with in your plan earlier. I have fleshed out the first idea into a full sentence. Alone, this is not enough, as this is just introducing my point. For each of your points, you need at least one extra sentence, giving a bit more information to support your claim. In fact, we can begin to build a chart, beginning with the topic sentence. As you can see, each of your main points (or major supporting sentences) support your controlling idea, and the extra information sentences (or minor supporting sentences) support each of your points. The extra information sentences may not make sense all by themselves, but paired with the main point help support your opinion overall. Now you can add the other points from your plan to your paragraph. Use transition words to introduce each new point. Make it clear to the reader that you are moving from one point to the next so that they don’t get confused. Finally, we have the concluding sentence. This summarises