Composing powerful paragraphs is essential when striving for dear communication. Familiarize yourself with basic paragraph elements, various paragraph patterns, and strategies for building coherence. Use the following paragraphs to answer the questions that follow
Paragraph A: Last week, three of our Xdite executives closed a lucrative merger deal with Editionplus. The merger will add more than 500 accounts to our business and will increase our profits by 39 percent in less than a year. Additionally, the executives met with several Editionplus product designers and agreed on three new computer prototypes that we will produce during the next five years. This means we will expand our business to both Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
Paragraph B: Employee reaction has been mixed about our recent plans to expand to Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Many Xcite employees are concerned that the Los Angeles site will not have the same relaxed corporate environment as the current site. However, this is not the case: The relaxed corporate environment at the San Francisco site will be replicated in Los Angeles. The culture we have developed works for the company and our employees, and we don't plan to change it. Human resources executives are already interviewing San Francisco employees so they can capture and replicate the culture with ease.

2. "Everyone in senior-level positions has worked his or her way up the corporate ladder and has contributed greatly to the company's success. This team has increased our profits by 6 percent, expanded office space, hired additional IT support, and strengthened our IT infrastructure. These are just a few of this leadership team's many accomplishments."

Explanation:

1. The Direct Approach is also known as a Deductive Approach. This is because when using the Direct Approach, the writer or speaker begins with the main point of the article and then gives supporting evidence and explanations as they go further along.

Paragraph A uses the Direct approach because the writer began by talking about the main point of the sealing of the deal with Editionplus. It then speaks on how it will increase their profits and how they even met with some of their product designers.

Paragraph C also uses the Direct Approach as it speaks to the effectiveness of the leadership first and then gives evidence of why they are effective by stating that they worked hard for it and that they have increased profits, office space and strengthened infrastructure.

2. Supporting sentences are made with the purpose of supporting the main point. They expound on the point and give it meaning by showing evidence of the original point.

Option C would be the correct answer because it gave evidence of the main point in Paragraph C. The Main Point noted how the leadership in San Francisco has been phenomenal for the past decade. Option C then speaks on how they have done so by stating that they had worked their way up and contributed to the success of the company by having increased profits by 6 percent, expanded office space, hired additional IT support, and strengthened IT infrastructure.

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