Page 39 - SREENARAYANAGURU OPEN UNIVERSITY

Let us briefly expand each of these steps: Interrogative sentences are used for asking
questions or information. These sentences end
Prewriting: with a question mark.

f Organise your topic For example: Would you like a cup of tea?
f Brainstorm your ideas
f Collect data f Imperative sentences
Drafting: Imperative sentences are used to issue
orders, instruct, make requests, or to give
f Create a rough copy advice.
f Arrange your ideas
f Get feedback on your topic For example: Give me the pen.
Revising:
Open the door.
f Improve your writing
f Check your vocabulary Please buy me a cake.
f Spell check f Exclamatory sentences
Editing Exclamatory sentences are used to express

f Proofread your work strong feelings or emotions. These sentences
will end with an exclamation mark.
f Make sure the written document
is original For example: You are so pretty!
Publishing
1�3�4�2 How to write paragraphs
f Create a clean and final copy
1�3�4�1 Writing Sentences A paragraph contains a few sentences relat-
ing to a particular idea or topic. The central idea
The basic building blocks of written com- of the paragraph would be tuned with topic of
munication are the sentences. A sentence is a the entire text of document. In a well written
combination of words arranged according to paragraph, all sentences would be connected
certain grammatical rules. A sentence is used to to each other. The sentences that follow the
express your thought in the form of a statement topic statement should substantiate the topic.
or it can be a request, a question, command or The last paragraph of an article should sum up
an emotion. the whole idea of the content.

There are four types of sentences in the The topic sentence comes at the very begin-
English Language: ning and the conclusion comes at last. A para-

f Declarative or Assertive sentenc- graph should be comprehended completely in
es isolation. The order of sentences within the
The declarative sentences convey informa- paragraph is very important. One sentence
tion. They make affirmative or negative sen- should naturally lead to the other. If a sen-
tences. tence is incorrect, the whole paragraph would
become ineffective or simply wrong.
For example: This is my pen.
1�3�4�3 Parts of a paragraph
This is not my pen.
The following method is usually employed
f Interrogative sentences while writing a paragraph:

SGOU - FYUGP - SLM - English for Communication 33