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Grokking the Technical Writing Process

Basic Elements of a Paragraph

Explore the fundamental elements of a good paragraph, focusing on how to craft a clear topic sentence, develop supporting details coherently, avoid word repetition, and write a strong concluding sentence. This lesson helps you build paragraphs that communicate ideas effectively and maintain reader engagement.

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Overview

To write a good paragraph, we need to understand the basic elements of a paragraph and how each element contributes towards the formation of a complete, coherent paragraph structure.

A good paragraph consists of a topic sentenceexpresses the paragraph’s central idea., preferably at the beginning. All other sentences develop, support, and explain the idea introduced in the topic sentence.

Research shows that readers understand the paragraph more quickly if the topic sentence is introduced in the beginning.

Main body and structuring the paragraphs coherently

Each sentence in a coherent paragraph amplifies the idea of the topic ...