Traditional Paragraph

Traditional Paragraph

      A paragraph is a group of sentences which are all giving information about the same topic. An essay is made up of several paragraphs, but this tutorial will be discussing how one single paragraph is traditionally written and what goes into it. A paragraph is usually made up of three parts:

 1. One topic sentence at the beginning

 2. Several sentences in the middle giving supporting details and other specific information about the topic

 3. Then one concluding sentence at the end. A paragraph can be any length, long or short, but the average length is usually about four or five sentences.

       All paragraphs should begin with an indention the size of about one tab space in order to let the reader know that a new paragraph (and therefore a new topic) has begun. Let’s take a closer look at each of these parts.

1. The Topic Sentence  is usually the very first sentence in a paragraph. The purpose of the topic sentence is to tell the reader the one, main point that the entire paragraph will be making about the topic. This special sentence should make a specific point about something.
2. The Supporting Material After the topic sentence, you should write several sentences which give detailed supporting evidence for your topic sentence.
3. The Concluding Sentence The very last sentence of a single paragraph should be the concluding sentence. In it, you should remind the reader what your original topic sentence was by repeating some of the main ideas and words. However, do not repeat the topic sentence exactly word-for-word. Change a few of the words in the concluding sentence so that it is not an exact repeat of the topic sentence, but be sure that the main idea is still the same.