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English 4 | Week 7

Unity
Unity and
and
Completeness
Completeness
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Learning Objectives

Understand the importance of unity and completeness in paragraph writing and

explain how they effectively contribute in identifying any gaps or missing information.

Demonstrate the ability to write paragraphs with unity and completeness.

Revise and edit paragraphs for improved unity and completeness.

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TODAY'S AGENDA
Contents

01 Discuss the importance of

02 Explore the contribution of
unity and completeness in paragraph unity and
paragraph writing. completeness in identifying any
gaps or missing information.

03 Practice writing paragraph

with the unity and
completeness concepts.
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PARAGRAPH UNITY VIDEO Unity

Click here
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BUT FIRST, .....
With a partner or on your own, identify five 1.
best places that foreign visitors should visit
2.
in your country.
3.
Share your list in class. Do you share the
same ideas with your classmates regarding 4.
the best placed to visit in your country?
5.
How are they different? Do you have
different reasons for choosing those
places?
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REVIEW
A good paragraph must have three separate parts: a topic sentence,
supporting sentences, and a concluding sentence.
It must also have certain characteristics such as coherence and cohesion.
Another important characteristic is unity.

UNITY
When a paragraph has unity, all the supporting sentence relate to the topic
sentence.
To achieve unity, we need to cross out any irrelevant sentences that do not
belong in the paragraph.
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A National Treasure
Pha That Luang is a beautiful monument to the independence of the Laotian people.
On top of a hill in the capital city, Pha That Luang can be seen for miles. In fact, when I
first saw It, I was at least 10 miles away. Its base is a square with four walls that look
like large lotus petals. At each corner is a stupa and there is one gate on each of the
four sides. The gates open onto stairs that take you to the second level. The second
level is another smaller square with 30 stupas surrounding it. The third level has the
grandest stupa in the middle. It reaches 45 meters from the base of the monument to
its top. It is shaped like a long lotus bud, and on top of it is a decoration that looks like
a banana flower with an umbrella on its top. The whole monument is covered in
shining gold leaf. Indeed, Pha That Luang truly is a treasure for the Laotian people.
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COMPLETENESS
Another characteristic of good paragraph is completeness.
A paragraph is complete when it has all the major supporting sentences
it needs to fully explain the topic sentence and all the minor supporting
Completeness
sentences it needs to explain each major supporting sentences.
A paragraph that is NOT complete does not have enough sentences to
follow through on what the topic sentence promises.
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FRAGMENT SENTENCES
The minimum sentences in written English consists of a subject, a verb, and an
independent clause. String of words that either do not have a subject of a verb are called
fragments and must be corrected.

Recognizing Sentence Fragments

When a group of words is missing important information, it no longer expresses a

complete thought.
There are four types of sentence fragments:
1. Missing subject fragments
2. Missing verb fragments
3. Missing a subject and a verb fragments
4. Dependent clause fragments
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FIXING SENTENCE FRAGMENTS

Missing Verb Missing Subjects

We can fix these types of fragments
by adding a verb.
My little sister ran away.
My cute little dog is cuddly.
We can fix each of those fragments
and turn them into sentences by
adding a subject.
The dog ran around the tree.
The president will walk into the room.
A rocket shot through the sky.
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FIXING SENTENCE FRAGMENTS

Missing Subjects & Verb
We need to add a subject and a verb
to these prepositional phrases in
order to make them complete
sentences.
The corn is on the table.
My doggie ran over there.
Missing Subjects
We can fix each of those fragments
and turn them into sentences by
adding a subject.
The dog ran around the tree.
The president will walk into the room.
A rocket shot through the sky.
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FIXING SENTENCE FRAGMENTS

Dependent Clause Fragments

You can fix these kinds of fragments by connecting the dependent clause to
an independent clause (a group of words with a subject and a verb that
expresses a complete thought).
You can add the independent clause to the beginning or the end of the
dependent clause.

Whenever I walk the dog, I feel great.

I will stay here until my little sister walks into the room.
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and Completeness

Elements Strategy
Here are
characteristics coherence Move any sentences that are out of order
of good
paragraph
cohesion Use the cohesive devices
that you have
learned and
strategies on unity Eliminate irrelevant sentences
how to achieve
them completeness Add necessary sentences
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YOUR TURN TO SHINE

Referring to the 5 writing tasks you have from chapter 1,
proofread the paragraph based on the following coherence,
cohesion elements, unity and completeness.
Task
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Paragraph Checklist
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Do my 5 paragraphs follow these elements

Type of Paragraph Coherence Cohesion Unity Completeness

Purpose of writing

Narrative

Descriptive

Expository

Persuasive
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Characteristics of Effective Feedback

Directs attention to the intended learning or learning targets, pointing

out strengths and offering specific information to guide improvement.
Occurs during learning, while there is still time to act on it
Addresses partial understanding.
Does not do the thinking for the student.
Limits corrective information to the amount of advice the student can
act on.

Feedback
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SUBMISSION

Submit your piece of writing through the link

provided in Google Drive and follow the other
instructions of your lecturer.
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