Exercise on session 7

Exercise: Analyzing Unity

Read the following process paragraph. Underline the sentence that does not belong.

 Cleaning your room

1  Cleaning your room is not difficult if you follow some simple

guidelines.  2  First, you must pick up all of your clothes off the floor. 3  Then you need to decide which clothes are dirty and which clothes are clean and put them in their appropriate places.  4  It is important to wash your clothes with good-quality laundry detergent to keep them looking neat and clean.  5  After that, you should put away any items that are out of place.  6  The next step is to dust all of your furniture, such as your nightstand or dresser.  7  The final step is to mop or vacuum the floor, depending on its surface.  8  Once you have finished these steps, you can relax as you think about your good work. You can use a purpose statement to help establish your purpose and to help establish unity. You can also check to see whether each sentence follows the writer’s purpose statement: “The purpose of this paragraph is to explain how to clean your room.