Paragraph DevelopmentUsing the PEEEL Structure

How familiar are you with the PEEEL structure?Point: Should be embedded in your Topic Sentence

Explanation/ Elaboration: Why do you make this Point?

Evidence: Can be Specific or General

Evaluation/ Elaboration: Are there any assumptions that need to be challenged? Does your Evidence necessarily prove your Point?

Link: Important! Make the links between your Evidence and your Topic Sentence, and the link between the paragraph and your Stand.

Example

Should any limits be placed upon media freedom?

Question Analysis:

Subject: Censorship of the mediaKey Terms:Assumption:Contention:Context:

Should any limits be placed upon media freedom?

Question Analysis:

Subject: Censorship of the media

Key Terms: ‘Should’: Obligation of the regulating authorities to censor? Is freedom of speech a fundamental human right?

‘Any limits’: Any regulation/censorship

Assumption:Contention:Context:

Should any limits be placed upon media freedom?

Question Analysis:

Subject: Censorship of the media

Key Terms: ‘Should’: Obligation of the regulating authorities to censor? Is freedom of speech a fundamental human right?

‘Any limits’: Any regulation/ censorship

Assumption: That no limits should be placed upon mediaContention:Context:

Should any limits be placed upon media freedom?

Question Analysis:

Subject: Censorship of the media

Key Terms: ‘Should’: Obligation of the regulating authorities to censor? Moral rights to

a allow expression of free speech?‘Any limits’: Any regulation/ censorship

Assumption: That no limits should be placed upon media freedom

Contention: Whether or not the media should be completely free and uncensored/

regulatedContext:

Should any limits be placed upon media freedom?

Question Analysis:

Subject: Censorship of the media

Key Terms: ‘Should’: Obligation of the regulating authorities to censor? Moral rights to aallow expression of free speech?‘Any limits’: Any regulation/ censorship

Assumption: That no limits should be placed upon media freedom

Contention: Whether or not the media should be completely free and uncensored/ regulated

Context: Not specified

Should any limits be placed upon media freedom? • It is understandable that people desire media

freedom as it allows journalists to have the freedom and ability to expose the truths objectively.

Topic Sentence

Point

Should any limits be placed upon media freedom? • It is understandable that people desire media

freedom as it allows journalists to have the freedom and ability to expose the truths objectively.

• These are truths that may be deliberately kept away from public scrutiny because a government wishes to portray itself in a good light.

Topic Sentence

Explanation of Point

Should any limits be placed upon media freedom? • It is understandable that people desire media

freedom as it allows journalists to have the freedom and ability to expose the truths objectively.

• These are truths that may be deliberately kept away from public scrutiny because a government wishes to portray itself in a good light.

• Without journalistic freedom, journalists such as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, would have never been able to expose the Watergate scandal that was concealed by President Richard Nixon’s staff. Citizens of the United States would not have known that they had elected a fraudulent liar as their President, had they not known about the Watergate scandal.

Topic Sentence (Point)

Explanation of Point

Evidence

Should any limits be placed upon media freedom?

• It is understandable that people desire media freedom as it allows journalists to have the freedom and ability to expose the truths objectively.

• These are truths that may be deliberately kept away from public scrutiny because a government wishes to portray itself in a good light.

• Without journalistic freedom, journalists such as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, would have never been able to expose the Watergate scandal that was concealed by President Richard Nixon’s staff. Citizens of the United States would not have known that they had elected a fraudulent liar as their President, had they not known about the Watergate scandal.

• People have the right to know about the governments are doing. This media freedom allows the press to function as a political watchdog, thus keeping the government in check.

Topic Sentence (Point)

Explanation of Point

Evidence

Evaluation

Should any limits be placed upon media freedom?

• It is understandable that people desire media freedom as it allows journalists to have the freedom and ability to expose the truths objectively.

• These are truths that may be deliberately kept away from public scrutiny because a government wishes to portray itself in a good light.

• Without journalistic freedom, journalists such as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, would have never been able to expose the Watergate scandal that was concealed by President Richard Nixon’s staff. Citizens of the United States would not have known that they had elected a fraudulent liar as their President, had they not known about the Watergate scandal.

• People have the right to know about the governments are doing. This media freedom allows the press to function as a political watchdog, thus keeping the government in check.

• This important role played by the media should thus not be undermined by limitations and government censorship.

Topic Sentence (Point)

Explanation of Point

Evidence

Evaluation

Linking Sentence

Get the picture?