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PEEL Paragraph Structure

[Music] when you write a paragraph you need to make sure it has a structure a paragraph's structure is like its skeleton just like skeletons keep your organs and muscles in the right place the structure of a paragraph keeps your ideas in the right order so readers can easily understand what you're trying to say without a structure a paragraph would be all over the place kind of like a body without a skeleton one way to structure your paragraph is by using the peel method you just have to follow these simple Steps step one use chat GPT thanks for watching don't forget to subscribe and turn on notific Okay but let's say you have to write appeal paragraph Without AI just like our ancestors did here's how you do it so appeal paragraph has four parts the P stands for point the first e stands for explain the second e stands for evidence and the L stands for link we'll start with the first section of the paragraph which is the point here you have to State the main point or argument for the paragraph have a look at this example of a point we must stop Turtles from eating plastic bags this is a good example because the point is simple and straightforward enough for readers to know what the paragraph will be about next we have our first e the explained section of the paragraph where we have to explain the point in more detail so here's an example of what you might write in this section Turtles mistake plastic bags for jellyfish and if Turtles keep eating them there won't be any plastic bags left so we've said turtles shouldn't eat plastic bags in the point and now we've explained why that is by providing a bit more detail now we're up to the second e which stands for evidence in this section you need to give evidence to back up what you're saying like facts statistics and expert opinions you could write something like for example a study by the World Wildlife Foundation found that 52% of turtles had eaten plastic how will we carry the things we buy if all the plastic bags are inside turtles so here we've given specific evidence that supports what we were saying earlier in the paragraph notice how we've also included the source of the information so readers know that we're not just making it up now we've come to the last part of the peel paragraph the L which stands for link where you link everything back to the point you made at the start of the paragraph it could be something like this therefore if we want a future with plastic bags we cannot let turtles eat them all also if you want to sound really smart you should start your linking sentence with something like therefore overall given these facts to summarize in concl usion thus or hence so that's basically how you write a peel paragraph one thing I will say though is that you don't have to follow the exact structure you could have the evidence come first and then explain it afterwards or you could explain then give two or three pieces of evidence you could explain give evidence explain give more evidence you could even write a p l paragraph if you want it so as long as you start with a point have plenty of explanation and evidence in the middle and finish with with a link it'll be a great paragraph [Music] [Applause]