10 Examples of Informative Paragraphs

Informative paragraphs

The informative paragraphs are those in which an idea or concept is characterized or described or in which data on a topic or fact are provided so that the reader can understand and know them.

A paragraph is a unit of a text that is made up of one or more sentences, beginning with a capital letter and ending with a new paragraph. The texts are organized in such a way that each paragraph deals with a central idea.

The informational paragraphs are in informative texts, which can be journalistic or scientific. These paragraphs use language appropriate to the context, concise and clear and never include subjective assessments, opinions or arguments that serve to convince the reader.

These paragraphs have a main idea from which secondary ideas emerge. Depending on how these ideas are arranged, the informational paragraphs can be:

Informational Paragraph Examples

1. The soybean trade is the main economic activity in this region. In 84% of the fields of this province soybeans are produced. In addition, 70% of industrial production is related to this food, since derived products are made, such as soy sauce and soy-based foods or products that improve production are made in the field, such as machines and fertilizers. In relation to employment, 40% of the population of this area works in one of the fields that are linked to this grain. (
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2. The purchasing power of the population has decreased considerably, the health system and the education system do not provide good quality services, public works public projects are not related to the needs of citizens, the employment rate is one of the lowest in history and companies are increasingly investing less. All this shows that there is general dissatisfaction with the measures that the current government is implementing. (inductive paragraph)
3. The streets are adorned with white or different colored lights. The tents are decorated with red or green figures. People come and go, go in and out of stores. There are trees with sparkling balls, garlands and stars in stores, houses, restaurants and parks. Despite a few weeks to go, festive weather is already in the air. (streaky paragraph, the main idea is to talk about the Christmas weather)
4. Myths are orally transmitted narratives in which fantastic events or characters appear, and which arose to explain the origin and existence of different things. Being stories created by a society, myths serve to understand the worldview of different civilizations. These narratives were not considered as impossible or as products of the imagination but were considered as truths, since they were a source of knowledge or served as comfort in situations adverse. (inductive-deductive paragraph)
5. Collecting is an activity that does not consist of accumulating objects for no reason, but consists of revaluing those objects. Collectors collect, preserve, restore, study and display those objects. This activity is not just a hobby, because collectors spend a lot of time and effort to learn about the objects and their cultural value. That is why the objects in a collection are as important to the collecting community as the works of art to a painting enthusiast. (deductive paragraph)
6. Computers are exposed to many threats: viruses, Trojans, malware, hacks, theft of personal data, and spying on stored information. Many companies and people in the world are victims of these crimes and, in many cases, they are not even aware that their computers are affected by these threats. Therefore, it is necessary to secure computer systems with antivirus and firewall. (inductive paragraph)
7. Many cultural productions are made in languages ​​that are not the consumers' mother tongue, for example books, films and comics. Although many of these productions are well translated, others are not. In addition, there are other cultural productions that are not translated into other languages ​​or are only translated into very few. Knowing other languages ​​allows people to access other cultural content, to acquire other knowledge and to communicate with more people. (streaky paragraph, the main idea is the importance of studying foreign languages)
8. There are many natural disasters, such as forest fires, earthquakes, tsunamis, avalanches, droughts, atmospheric phenomena, volcanic eruptions and epidemics. But the origin of these phenomena are not always environmental events, since in some cases human activity is the cause or one of the causes. Pollution, climate change, floods and fires are events that significantly affect the environment and are largely caused by people. (inductive-deductive paragraph)
9. Cohesion and coherence are properties that texts must have to be well written and for readers to understand ideas. Cohesion is the relationship that the text has with each of its parts, therefore, a cohesive text is one whose paragraphs and sentences have logical relationships and which, therefore, is easy to understand. Coherence is the relationship that a text has with the context, since it has to be appropriate to the situation in which the text takes place, and the relationship that a text has with each of its parts, since a text has to be well organized so that the reader can understand it. (deductive paragraph)
10. In the 20th century, changes were introduced in the theater: it broke with the fourth wall and became more present to the public. Many actors stopped repeating a script and began to improvise their lines, the structure of the stories stopped follow the logic of introduction, middle and end and there was greater freedom of creativity because it stopped responding to forms fixed. For this reason, the theater ceased to be a regulated art and became a more innovative art and highly critical of formal precepts. (inductive paragraph)

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