Lesson 2 -- Review of Paragraph Structure

Summary:

• Though some formal teaching can be valuable, the key to writing well is reading excellent things, thinking well, and paying attention to expressing your thoughts as well as you can.
  
• We are starting with paragraphs since in some ways they are like miniature versions of compositions.
• Some Qualities of a Paragraph are unity, continuity, variety, and proportion.
• To illustrate the balance of unity and continuity in real writing, we took two Examples of Paragraphs.
• Here is a Discussion of the Examples

For review, try this quiz on paragraph structure. Please remember that the quizzes and textbook material will generally be way oversimplified compared to the actual writing process).