Paragraph
noun
A separate section in a writing, usually dealing with a single idea.
The first paragraph of the article gives a brief summary of the topic.
Often appears as...
- opening paragraph
- closing paragraph
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Academic
noun
A symbol used to indicate a new paragraph.
Use a paragraph symbol to denote the start of a new idea in your draft.
Often appears as...
- indented paragraph
- bulleted paragraph
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Technical
noun
A short note or summary about something.
Write a brief paragraph about your experience at the event.
Often appears as...
- short paragraph
- brief paragraph
verb
To express or report in a paragraph.
You need to paragraph your thoughts in an organized manner.
Often appears as...
- paragraph the introduction
- paragraph the conclusion
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Academic
noun
A separate section in a writing, usually dealing with a single idea.
The first paragraph of the article gives a brief summary of the topic.
Often appears as...
- opening paragraph
- closing paragraph
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A symbol used to indicate a new paragraph.
Use a paragraph symbol to denote the start of a new idea in your draft.
Often appears as...
- indented paragraph
- bulleted paragraph
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A short note or summary about something.
Write a brief paragraph about your experience at the event.
Often appears as...
- short paragraph
- brief paragraph
verb
To express or report in a paragraph.
You need to paragraph your thoughts in an organized manner.
Often appears as...
- paragraph the introduction
- paragraph the conclusion
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Coherent Structure
Paragraphs organize writing by grouping related sentences, making your text easier to understand.
A well-structured paragraph helps readers follow your argument.
Pro Tip 2/3Unity of Idea
Each paragraph should focus on one main idea, which is usually introduced in the first sentence.
The initial sentence should set the stage for the paragraph's content.
Pro Tip 3/3Transition Signals
Use words like 'however', 'furthermore', and 'meanwhile' to connect paragraphs and flow smoothly.
However, the next paragraph reveals a surprising twist.
Pro Tip 1/3Coherent Structure
Paragraphs organize writing by grouping related sentences, making your text easier to understand.
A well-structured paragraph helps readers follow your argument.
Pro Tip 2/3Unity of Idea
Each paragraph should focus on one main idea, which is usually introduced in the first sentence.
The initial sentence should set the stage for the paragraph's content.
Pro Tip 3/3Transition Signals
Use words like 'however', 'furthermore', and 'meanwhile' to connect paragraphs and flow smoothly.
However, the next paragraph reveals a surprising twist.
Pro Tip 1/3Coherent Structure
Paragraphs organize writing by grouping related sentences, making your text easier to understand.
A well-structured paragraph helps readers follow your argument.
Pro Tip 2/3Unity of Idea
Each paragraph should focus on one main idea, which is usually introduced in the first sentence.
The initial sentence should set the stage for the paragraph's content.
Pro Tip 3/3Transition Signals
Use words like 'however', 'furthermore', and 'meanwhile' to connect paragraphs and flow smoothly.
However, the next paragraph reveals a surprising twist.
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4 Lessons in Creativity...
into an appreciation of all of those qualities of language and of sentences that are not just the cognitive aspects of the syncopations, the sounds of words, what words look like, where paragraphs break, where lines break. I mean, I wasn't so badly dyslexic that I was disabled from reading. I just had to do it
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Rives: The Museum of...
First paragraph, the main character wakes up transformed into a giant cockroach, but we already know, cockroach notwithstanding, something is up with this guy. Why? His alarm is set for four o'clock in the morning. What kind of person would do that? This kind of person would do that.
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Tim Cope: On the Trail...
so long that they've forgotten what a stable is and of course I had to turn around and tell him that the stable that my horses had never been in a stable in their life and if I if you don't mind I just like to read you one paragraph from my book about what I thought about that
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How to make a profit...
Now, I know some of you are thinking, global capital markets, positive social change, not usually in the same sentence or even the same paragraph. I think many people think of the capital markets kind of like an ocean. It's a vast, impersonal, uncaring force of nature
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Gun violence as told by...
to read it all it's kind of hard material to get through I just wanted them to scroll through and get a sense of the carnage taking place in their country every day soon I began to see patterns shootings multiplied over the weekend resulting in paragraph after
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Sir David Attenborough...
communicating with naturalist all over the world but by post which took weeks to meet different people and to produce at the end this very beautifully written book the last paragraph of this book you know is is a great piece of literature
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Sylvia Earle: How to...
of an encyclopedia of life, or the census of marine life, will live not just as a list, a photograph, or a paragraph. With scientists around the world, I've been looking at the 99 percent of the ocean
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TED Prize wish: Protect...
cows or chickens protected areas provide hope that the creatures of ed Wilson's dream of an encyclopedia of life or the census of marine life will live not just as a list a photograph or a paragraph
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Help for kids the...
College, me? Man, what is this teacher smoking thinking I'm going to college? I applied with the mentors and support she provided, got a letter of acceptance, and one of the paragraphs read,
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The 4 a.m. mystery PIPE...
Sure you were, because you've prepared your entire life for this historic quadrennial event that just sort of sneaks up on you. And then -- three paragraphs later we get this little
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4 Lessons in Creativity...
into an appreciation of all of those qualities of language and of sentences that are not just the cognitive aspects of the syncopations, the sounds of words, what words look like, where paragraphs break, where lines break. I mean, I wasn't so badly dyslexic that I was disabled from reading. I just had to do it
Video examples
Rives: The Museum of...
First paragraph, the main character wakes up transformed into a giant cockroach, but we already know, cockroach notwithstanding, something is up with this guy. Why? His alarm is set for four o'clock in the morning. What kind of person would do that? This kind of person would do that.
Video examples
Tim Cope: On the Trail...
so long that they've forgotten what a stable is and of course I had to turn around and tell him that the stable that my horses had never been in a stable in their life and if I if you don't mind I just like to read you one paragraph from my book about what I thought about that
Video examples
How to make a profit...
Now, I know some of you are thinking, global capital markets, positive social change, not usually in the same sentence or even the same paragraph. I think many people think of the capital markets kind of like an ocean. It's a vast, impersonal, uncaring force of nature
Video examples
Gun violence as told by...
to read it all it's kind of hard material to get through I just wanted them to scroll through and get a sense of the carnage taking place in their country every day soon I began to see patterns shootings multiplied over the weekend resulting in paragraph after
Video examples
Sir David Attenborough...
communicating with naturalist all over the world but by post which took weeks to meet different people and to produce at the end this very beautifully written book the last paragraph of this book you know is is a great piece of literature
Video examples
Sylvia Earle: How to...
of an encyclopedia of life, or the census of marine life, will live not just as a list, a photograph, or a paragraph. With scientists around the world, I've been looking at the 99 percent of the ocean
Video examples
TED Prize wish: Protect...
cows or chickens protected areas provide hope that the creatures of ed Wilson's dream of an encyclopedia of life or the census of marine life will live not just as a list a photograph or a paragraph
Video examples
Help for kids the...
College, me? Man, what is this teacher smoking thinking I'm going to college? I applied with the mentors and support she provided, got a letter of acceptance, and one of the paragraphs read,
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The 4 a.m. mystery PIPE...
Sure you were, because you've prepared your entire life for this historic quadrennial event that just sort of sneaks up on you. And then -- three paragraphs later we get this little
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Regina Brett
American Journalist
If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.
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Jeff Daniels
American Actor
And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it.
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Ali Smith
Scottish Writer
We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.
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Cynthia Ozick
American Novelist
In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological discovery. But when you write fiction, you don't know where you are going - sometimes down to the last paragraph - and that is the pleasure of it.
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Adam Ross
American Novelist
I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into something deep. But the fact remains that good sentences are hard won. Any writer worth a lick knows constructing a sentence, a paragraph, or a chapter is hard work.
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Dave Heineman
American Politician
I'll get a three-page letter and the last paragraph says 'I know you'll never read this, but here's my number.' I love to call those people because the first thing they say is, 'Governor, I didn't mean everything I said in the letter about you.
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Chaim Potok
American Author
What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene.
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Randy Wayne White
American Writer
The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?
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Nancy Kress
American Writer
The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.
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Edan Lepucki
American Novelist
I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.
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Regina Brett
American Journalist
If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.
Quote examples
Jeff Daniels
American Actor
And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it.
Quote examples
Ali Smith
Scottish Writer
We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.
Quote examples
Cynthia Ozick
American Novelist
In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological discovery. But when you write fiction, you don't know where you are going - sometimes down to the last paragraph - and that is the pleasure of it.
Quote examples
Adam Ross
American Novelist
I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into something deep. But the fact remains that good sentences are hard won. Any writer worth a lick knows constructing a sentence, a paragraph, or a chapter is hard work.
Quote examples
Dave Heineman
American Politician
I'll get a three-page letter and the last paragraph says 'I know you'll never read this, but here's my number.' I love to call those people because the first thing they say is, 'Governor, I didn't mean everything I said in the letter about you.
Quote examples
Chaim Potok
American Author
What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene.
Quote examples
Randy Wayne White
American Writer
The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?
Quote examples
Nancy Kress
American Writer
The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.
Quote examples
Edan Lepucki
American Novelist
I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.
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