I’ve come to praise the paragraph, not to bury it. Such appreciation was not always my thing. The early instruction I received made construction of a paragraph seem so mechanical, so formulaic, so ...

Paragraph Topic sentence Supporting sentences Concluding sentence Different ways of paragraph development. A topic sentence is the sentence that introduces the main idea in the paragraph. It is ...

A paragraph is a collection of related sentences dealing with a single topic. This handout breaks the paragraph down into its conceptual and structural components. The conceptual components — ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

technical level — the kind of thing you’d study in a graduate course on the structure of English — it is filled with persuasive observations and advice. Here’s a paragraph about short sentences: Ideas ...

With the Bennett-Amis and McGinn-Honderich dust-ups swirling in recent memory, it may be somewhat anti-climactic to sift through another sandstorm. Nevertheless, a recent critical assault, fuelled by ...

Writers can create tension in both of these ways using something as simple as varying their sentence lengths. Fiction writers can grab and hold their reader’s attention by creating tension. This can ...