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End of Chapter Exercises
- Select one of the following topics or choose a topic of your choice:
- The Alberta oil sands
- Drinking water access in First Nations reserves
- Introducing a four-day work week
- Bringing pets to work
- Charging airline passengers to use the in-flight bathroom
- Create a topic sentence based on the topic you chose, remembering to include both a main idea and a controlling idea. Next, write an alternative topic sentence using the same main idea but a different controlling idea. Explain how each fully developed paragraph might differ in tone and content.
- At some point during your career, you may be asked to write a report or complete a presentation. Imagine that you have been asked to report on the issue of health and safety in the workplace. Using the information under “Audience” in Chapter 2.4, complete an analysis of your intended audience—your fellow office workers. Consider how demographics, education, prior knowledge, and expectations will influence your report and explain how you will tailor it to your audience accordingly.
Attributions & References
Except where otherwise noted, this chapter is adapted from “6.3 – Writing Paragraphs: End-of-Chapter Exercises” In Writing for Success by University of Minnesota licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. / Adaptations: Topics have been updated.
