CONSTRUCTING EFFECTIVE PARAGRAPHS

Paragraphs display the shape of your thinking. A paragraph highlights a key idea that you want to convey and groups sentences together to support it.

Use a new paragraph for each new idea. Every time you take a step, say something new or change direction, you should start a new paragraph.

You can edit paragraphs in a number of ways.

• Using topic sentences
• Managing paragraph length
• Linking paragraphs together
• Using key words
• Laying out the paragraph
• Using bullet point lists