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Writing Effective Paragraphs

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Writing Effective Paragraphs

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Paragraph Shape

Indent

½”

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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

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Paragraph Unity

Be careful! Don’t lose sight of your main idea.

TOPIC

Unrelated details

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Topic sentence

Conclusion

Paragraph Development

Topic sentence1 or 2 general ideasConclusion

Put lots of “meat” in your paragraph sandwich!

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Finding Ideas To Write About Freewriting Brainstorming Clustering Journal writing Other?

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Arranging Your Ideas Time

Space

Importance

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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.