The Paper
Bank
The Paper Bank offers sample papers and paragraphs written by undergraduate college students, ranging in experience from beginning native and ESL speakers to senior-level students. Along with the sample student papers and paragraphs are comments written by Community College of Denver Writing Center tutors. The comments point out successful, and occasionally unsuccessful, writing patterns, techniques and strategies.
Use this site to:
- discover helpful writing hints, strategies, patterns and techniques.
- gain a better understanding of typical composition models or patterns.
- read student writing to know what it looks like in a variety of forms and at a variety of levels.
The Paragraph
Bank
The following student examples illustrate different paragraph styles and techniques. Like the clothes we wear, each student paragraph fits the writing situation. That is, the form, such as moving from the general to the specific, matches the content, or what the writer wants to say. You wouldn't, after all, wear a cocktail dress to the dentist; likewise, it is necessary to pay special attention to the organization of your paragraph to make sure it "suits" the topic. And while you may be able to get away with sloppy dressing in real life, in academic writing sloppy paragraphs with no organization are always a writing don't!
