Paragraph

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search A paragraph (from the Greek paragraphos, "to write beside" or "written beside") is a self-contained unit of a discourse in writing dealing with a particular point oridea. A paragraph consists of one or more sentences.[1][2] The start of a paragraph is indicated by beginning on a new line. Sometimes the first line is indented. At various times, the beginning of a paragraph has been indicated by the pilcrow: . A written workbe it an essay or a storyis about an idea or concept. An essay explains it; a story narrates it. To help the reader understand and enjoy it, the explanation or narration is broken down into units of text, the paragraph. In an essay, each paragraph explains or demonstrates a key point or thought of the central idea, usually to inform or persuade. In fiction, each paragraph serves to advance the plot, develop a character, describe a scene or narrate an actionall to entertain the reader. All paragraphs support each other, leading the reader from the first idea to the final resolution of the written work. Purpose of paragraph

A paragraph is a unit of text; it is made of sentences that connect to one another. Likewise, paragraphs support/connect to one another and together make up a written work, whether it is an essay or a story or something else. Paragraphs help organize writing, combining similar ideas together and developing key ideas that the work aims to convey. Organizing writing into paragraphs helps readers understand the work better- it is much easier to read text broken up into paragraphs rather than one long "block" of text, and paragraphs can also help with understanding how ideas are related. Composed of paragraph