Practice with making a good POINT

Quiz

The previous section described each part of the PIE paragraphing strategy: the Point, Illustration, and Explanation.  In this section, you'll have an opportunity to engage with each section of PIE.

Points

In expository writing, you often just straight up tell your reader what your point it. Your reader probably expects to read your point early in your essay or paragraph, because the convention is to tell your point up front.  

The Point, or main idea, of the paragraph is what you are trying to support or prove.  You don't need to support an already agreed upon fact, such as people need oxygen to live.  Both you and any reader already agree on that, so there's no argument there.  Your point is something about which you're trying to educate or convince your reader.

The sorting activity below asks you to decide which statements are arguable and which are not.

Directions:  True or False - for each of the statements below

    Answer TRUE if the statement is a factual Point