Pedagogical experience with paragraph writing

Abstract

This document gathers the experience of three Spanish native speaking professors throughout their teaching careers with regards to the writing of paragraphs. It is structured in three different sections. The first section titled “What is a paragraph?” addresses theoretical aspects which are provided as references to support the search for an efficient original concept for building students’ writing skills. To this end, a small review was conducted of the current state of the art of the study of paragraph writing. Five different authors with extensive experience with textual didactics were selected and peers Icesi University were interviewed. The second section titled “What is the purpose of a paragraph?” provides a reflection of the usefulness and significance of paragraphs in writing any kind of text. The third and last section titled “How can we teach how to write a paragraph?” proposes a methodology for working on paragraph writing skills in the classroom.