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Writing Effective Paragraphs
Paragraph Shape
Indent
½”
Paragraph Focus The topic sentence presents your
main idea in a complete sentence. It introduces your topic + your
position on the topic.
TOPIC Your position on topic
Paragraph Unity
Be careful! Don’t lose sight of your main idea.
TOPIC
Unrelated details
Topic sentence
Conclusion
Paragraph Development
Topic sentence1 or 2 general ideasConclusion
Put lots of “meat” in your paragraph sandwich!
Finding Ideas To Write About Freewriting Brainstorming Clustering Journal writing Other?
Arranging Your Ideas Time
Space
Importance
Paragraph Importance
The paragraph is the building block of any document. Think carefully about what you put into each paragraph and where you break up your text.
Too short: feels choppy and disconnected.
Too long: loses the main point.