Do you think that the world could survive without them? Could your essays?
The simple paragraph can give great pleasure, adding force to an argument, point to a point, and luring your reader step by step along the road of your essay.
Start your paragraph well, and it will be well-nigh irresistible to continue reading.
Start it in a dull way and you might as well write 'don't read on' in capital letters (which, paradoxically, would be quite a good way to encourage people to read on in itself, given the contrary nature of most human beings).
End a paragraph with a dextrous link to the next one, and you create a chain of reasoning that can lull the most incisive mind into believing all you say...
Or not?
When I think of paragraphs, I think of them as new starters- in the sense that a new point can be started. I find it difficult to link paragraphs- something I need to work on. How can I improve on this?
ReplyDeleteI tend to ramble a bit, forgetting paragraphs until I switch to the other point of view, which incidentally make good paragraph links, as I can just say 'on the other hand' or 'however', but it means my paragraphs are sometimes extremely long, like this one...
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