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Academic Skills Advice

Let’s look at one example – one possible theme ‘for’ the death penalty:

More cost effective than keeping people in jail all their lives.

A Another point in favour of the death penalty deals with economics.

B Spiralling utility service costs;

price of food increase;

minimum wage level risen

combination unsustainable

theme

C More cost effective than keeping people in jail all their lives.

D Government statistics regarding all of above;

utility companies own reports:

prison service information on costs

E Financial implications of keeping people alive is crippling to the State.

As you can see, when you start to develop a paragraph, it is not necessary to write in full

sentences. You can convert bullet points when you have allocated all the necessary

information to the appropriate element.

Activity 2: Constructing a critically analytic paragraph

Choose either another theme ‘for’ the death penalty or one that is ‘against’ it. Now, in

pairs or small groups, construct a paragraph using the ‘5-point’ structure above.

A Introduction

B Explanation/detail

theme

C Main theme

D Evidence (where you might get it from)

E Conclusion

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