Emotion and Music
Writing a Good Paragraph
Write a paragraph. Include all your work from steps one through five below for your teacher to see.
1. First, choose the topic that you wish to develop. Select a topic that is suitable and narrow enough for a one-paragraph development. Topic: Why Music changes peoples mood.
2. Second, list and number the ideas you will use to support and develop the main idea.
Supporting ideas:
1. When people are sad they usually listen to sad songs.
2. When someone is angry they will usually listen to metal or rock music.
3. Music can change your emotions by what genre you're listening too.
4...
3. Third, arrange and re-number the supporting and developing ideas in the most logical order. State the method which you are using to develop the main idea.
Rearrangement of Supporting ideas:
1. Music can change your emotions by what genre you're listening too.
2. When people are sad they usually listen to sad songs.
3. When someone is angry they will usually listen to metal or rock music.
4...
Method of arrangement:
4. Fourth, state the topic sentence, and write a good clinching sentence.
Topic sentence: Music can change people emotions or how they feel based on what their listening too.
Clinching sentence: You should be careful what you listen too because it can be harmful or beneficial.
5. Now, finally, write a coherent, unified paragraph based on steps one through four.
Paragraph:
Music can change peoples emotions or how they feel based on what their listening too. When you're in a happy mood you usually listen to upbeat music or music that has a happy vibe to it. When you're upset you listen to sad music or music that has a blue feeling. You can be really happy and you can hear a song that sounds depressing and it can put you in a depressed mood, it effects how you feel or your emotions. You should be careful what you listen too because it can be harmful or
beneficial.
Write a paragraph. Include all your work from steps one through five below for your teacher to see.
1. First, choose the topic that you wish to develop. Select a topic that is suitable and narrow enough for a one-paragraph development. Topic: Why Music changes peoples mood.
2. Second, list and number the ideas you will use to support and develop the main idea.
Supporting ideas:
1. When people are sad they usually listen to sad songs.
2. When someone is angry they will usually listen to metal or rock music.
3. Music can change your emotions by what genre you're listening too.
4...
3. Third, arrange and re-number the supporting and developing ideas in the most logical order. State the method which you are using to develop the main idea.
Rearrangement of Supporting ideas:
1. Music can change your emotions by what genre you're listening too.
2. When people are sad they usually listen to sad songs.
3. When someone is angry they will usually listen to metal or rock music.
4...
Method of arrangement:
4. Fourth, state the topic sentence, and write a good clinching sentence.
Topic sentence: Music can change people emotions or how they feel based on what their listening too.
Clinching sentence: You should be careful what you listen too because it can be harmful or beneficial.
5. Now, finally, write a coherent, unified paragraph based on steps one through four.
Paragraph:
Music can change peoples emotions or how they feel based on what their listening too. When you're in a happy mood you usually listen to upbeat music or music that has a happy vibe to it. When you're upset you listen to sad music or music that has a blue feeling. You can be really happy and you can hear a song that sounds depressing and it can put you in a depressed mood, it effects how you feel or your emotions. You should be careful what you listen too because it can be harmful or
beneficial.