The whole process is an organic one-a natural progression from a seed to a full-blown paper where there are direct, familial relationships between all of the ideas in the paper. A working thesis functions like a seed from which your paper, and your ideas, will grow. In other words, your paragraphs should remind your reader that there is a recurrent relationship between your thesis and the information in each paragraph. What is the most important idea that you are trying to convey to your reader? The information in each paragraph must be related to that idea. How do I decide what to put in a paragraph?īefore you can begin to determine what the composition of a particular paragraph will be, you must first decide on an argument and a working thesis statement for your paper. In this handout, we will refer to this as the “controlling idea,” because it controls what happens in the rest of the paragraph. Ultimately, a paragraph is a sentence or group of sentences that support one main idea. For instance, in some styles of writing, particularly journalistic styles, a paragraph can be just one sentence long. Length and appearance do not determine whether a section in a paper is a paragraph. A paragraph is defined as “a group of sentences or a single sentence that forms a unit” (Lunsford and Connors 116).
In reality, though, the unity and coherence of ideas among sentences is what constitutes a paragraph. Many students define paragraphs in terms of length: a paragraph is a group of at least five sentences, a paragraph is half a page long, etc. Paragraphs are the building blocks of papers.
#Relationship paragraphs how to
This handout will help you understand how paragraphs are formed, how to develop stronger paragraphs, and how to completely and clearly express your ideas.
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