![]() ![]() In the paragraph about washing a cocker spaniel, you might feel that you should describe the way your dog behaves when you wash him this description breaks the unity of your paragraph. Unity means “oneness.” That is, a paragraph must deal with only one idea. All facts follow in a coherent paragraph. For example, in the paragraph about washing the cocker spaniel, you would not put the instructions about brushing the dog ahead of those about drying him. ![]() Coherence means “a sticking together.” A coherent paragraph has all the sentences so well arranged that not one could be interchanged with another. Not only will your paragraph be wellorganized, it will have one of the most important qualities of all paragraphs: COHERENCE. Such an ending may be: “Now the dog is clean and shiny, all ready, in his opinion, to go out and roll over in the dirt.” If you follow this method of developing your idea, your paragraph will be wellorganized. The final sentence should bring the paragraph to a complete end that is, it must leave the reader feeling that you have told him all you have to say. ![]() From that point you proceed in the order in which you would if you were, in fact, washing a dog. The topic sentence may inform the reader that washing a cocker spaniel is a rather difficult process. The development of an idea in a paragraph follows the same procedure. The last sentence of your explanation is, of course, the last step of the problem. For instance, when someone asks you how to do a mathematical problem, you explain the process by giving the steps in order. To develop an idea is to unfold or reveal it. This structure is determined by the relationship of the ideas, and it is by constructing the paragraph properly that you develop the idea. The definition of a paragraph indicates that the sentences must be related they must have a particular structure. Structure By the structure of a paragraph is meant the building or composition of it. All writing of any length is, as you know, divided into paragraphs, and the first line of a new paragraph is indented. The first sentence of a paragraph usually introduces the idea it is called the topic sentence. The Paragraph: Unity, Order (Emphasis), Coherence Definition A paragraph is a group of closelyrelated sentences which deal with and develop one idea. JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE WRITING CENTER ![]()
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