Paragraph Writing: From Sentence to Paragraph Carlos Islam, Dorothy Zemach
Publisher: Macmillan Education

When used properly, an occasional one-off sentence can really stand out, amidst the tumble of longer paragraphs made up of complicated sentences. Second, the extra sentences take up valuable space. Dividing Information into Paragraphs. Topic Sentence Each paragraph is a sequence of sentences that are clearly related to a topic sentence. Writing tends to improve as you take things away. Like this: Like Loading This entry was tagged books, energy, gary provost, harmony, instruments, music, outlines, paragraph, reading, rhythm, sentences, structure, writing. That's why everyone encourages you to rampage through your first draft--killing your darlings, omitting needless words, deleting entire sentences and paragraphs. Daniels my freshman English teacher that I said that. Business Writing Tips – Use Paragraphs to Separate Ideas (2). This wonderful teacher also stressed the importance of a well-formed opening sentence that sets up the content of the paragraph. Forget the “paragraph rules.” You have permission to write two sentence paragraphs. Sometimes you need a one-sentence paragraph…don't tell Mr. Keep in mind that the readers will greatly rely on what it says so as they can decide if the paragraph is worth reading or not. I have long been a fan of single sentence paragraphs.