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OLC40P: Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course

Unit 6: Culminating Unit

Activity 3: Writing the Informational paragraph

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Assignment

dropbox icon Complete the following assignment and submit your work to your teacher.

Write an Informational Paragraph. In this third assignment of the Final Evaluation, you will record and organize information about a topic of interest to you. You will gather information about the topic and construct an information paragraph appropriate to a specific audience and purpose.

Tip
  1. A suggestion for a topic for your information paragraph could be advising a particular audience how to stay safe while interacting on the web OR describing a specific form of online participation, for example, chat rooms - advantages, dangers, and ways to stay safe. Be sure to choose a topic of particular interest to you and to remember that your audience in this instance is your teacher.
  2. You could use a graphic organizer, such as the one below, to organize your information for the paragraph.

Parts

Details

Introductory sentence – topic

 

Developing sentences – examples to support your topic sentences

 

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