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The New Writing with a Purpose, Fourteenth Edition
Joseph F. Trimmer, Ball State University
End-of-Chapter Activities
Chapter 8: Paragraphs: Units of Development

  1. Try turning the paragraphs you wrote and the pictures you gathered for Writing Assignments 1 and 2 (see p. 221) into a website. How can you create a coherent hypertext portrait of your family member? Can you use your paragraphs as they are, or do you need to rewrite them to fit the medium of a website? How can you use design and imagery to support the site's coherence?

  2. Chapter 8 points out that "like so many other writing procedures, making paragraphs depends on your subject, your audience, [and] your purpose."

    Research the issue of access to education for undocumented aliens, or illegal immigrants, on the Web. Find one site that argues for and one site that argues against allowing illegal immigrants to attend U.S. state universities at subsidized tuition rates. Who is each site's audience? What is its purpose? How have these factors affected the writer's use of paragraphs? Refer to the techniques discussed in Chapter 8 in your analysis.


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