Thursday, November 11, 2021

Homeschool . ELA . Writing Explanatory Essay 2

11.10.2021

Main Idea, Details, and Linking Words in Explanatory Essays

An explanatory essay has a main idea and supporting details

  • The main idea is the most important idea, or topic, that the writer wants to explain. 
  • The details are the facts, definitions, examples, or other information supporting a main idea. Related facts are grouped together.  
  • Linking words and phrases such as also, another, as a result, yet, for example and etc. are used to make the explanatory essay easier to read. Linking words help readers understand the relationships between ideas.


Linking & Connecting Words

It is essential to understand how Linking Words, as a part of speech, can be used to combine ideas in writing - and thus ensure that ideas within sentences and paragraphs are elegantly connected - for the benefit of the reader (資料取自《https://www.smart-words.org/linking-words/》).

"Linking Words" is used as a term to denote a class of English words which are employed to link or connect parts of speech or even whole sentences. They are also called connecting words. There are 2 categories of Linking Words (or Connecting Words) (資料取自《https://www.smart-words.org/linking-words/》):

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