Paragraph Writing Tips for SBI Bank PO Exam 2014 – With Examples
What is a paragraph?
A paragraph is a compilation of similar sentences related to a single topic. The capability to write good paragraphs will help you during drafting of letters and emails to colleagues and senior management. You can have a great plan, but if it is not presented in an organized fashion, you may fail to achieve your goals.
Simple Rule: Keep one idea to one paragraph
The basic thumb rule with paragraphing is to keep one idea to one paragraph. If you begin to transform into a new idea, it belongs in a new paragraph. There are some simple ways to tell if you are on the same topic or a new one.
Below mentioned are some simple examples of Paragraph Writing
Topic 1 – As The Baggage Is To An Army, So Is Riches To Virtue
The simile is perfectly correct. An army depends on the baggage for its victory as much as a man depends on the riches for virtuous achievements. What an army needs the most is equipment plus courage. The baggage is, no doubt, helpful and enables the soldiers to relax whenever there is an occasion to do so but it has only a minor contribution to make in his final victory. An army possessing a lot of baggage but not well equipped with proper and adequate armament or not comprising brave soldiers, may show its back and run on its heels. Similarly, a man possessing unlimited riches but lacking other virtues of head and heart may not become a virtuous man.
Topic 2 – Appearances Are Always Deceptive
So deceptive are appearances that for ages men thought that the sun goes round the earth and the earth is flat. It is the central problem of all knowledge to probe beneath that which is so carefully hidden from the view. Reality is complex and truth proverbially baffling. In everyday life this problem is equally acute, for our experience tells us that fine feathers do not always make fine birds nor is all that glitters by any means gold. A person may smile and yet be a villain, for a scoundrel can without much effort acquire the polish of a perfect gentleman. An old hag (ugly woman) may appear desirable from a distance because of a liberal use of cosmetics. Democracy, as practised in the capitalistic countries, seems to give power into the hands of the people, and yet even Lincoln could note that it was in reality the rule of monopolies.
Topic 3 – Charity Begins At Home
It is a common old saying which holds good in every instance. Any act of goodness can have solid foundations only if it spreads goodness around. An act of charity must not be undertaken by spreading starvation at home. Any good act must have its beginning from one’s own environment. Similarly, it is sheer hypocrisy to preach to others what we do not practise ourselves. In India today everybody shouts that there is corruption and nepotism in the country but when the same person is placed in a position of authority, he himself cannot resist these temptations. The greatness of Gandhiji lay in this that in any political programme he chalked out for the nation, he would place himself in the forefront unmindful of the sufferings it would entail. The world judges us by our deeds and not by our professions.
Topic 4 – Formula For Happiness: A Good Bank Account, A Good Cook, A Good Digestion
To most of the people, it is the Epicurean life of ‘eat, drink and be merry’ that has a great appeal. They want superfluity to ensure security from poverty and hunger, with enough to eat, to live a merry living. In the materialistic society money speaks, money talks, money broadcasts. It purchases all happiness for man. Let love be measured in kilogrammes. But to enjoy life and its bounties, one should have a good health, without which all the material resources will be of little avail. Carefree life is an essential part of happiness, when a person would feel that he lives to eat and dance about. Such people, possess a good health, have a good time up, pass with their life insured against penury. This is the motto of western living and a passport to happiness and progress. This is what is called the bright life with all its rosy dreamland.
Topic 5 – It Is Nationalism That Tries To Check The Growth Of World Civilisations
Nationalism limits the attachments of a person to his own motherland, thus blinding him to the larger interests of the whole wide world; If a man is faithful to his own country, he would start hating some other nations whose interests clash with his own. Thus the principle of the world civilisation is reduced to a mere illusion; it simply remains something idealistic but hardly practicable, confined to his own notion, a citizen is likely to lose contacts with the outside world, and thus defeat the ideal of internationalism. A strict nationalist cannot recognise his opponents as brothers. Nationalism and human brotherhood do not go hand in hand; they contradict each other. Thus, in this atomic era when man has annihilated time and space, aggressive nationalism and national egos are standing in the way of this small ‘good earth’ becoming the cradle of a single human civilisation.
Paragraph writing may not be as difficult as Precis Writing, but you need to practise as much as possible. The best ways would be to read a lot of books and magazines and understand the style of writing a good paragraph, most important, you need to write and practise.