1. The Paragraph is… • “a collection of related sentences dealing with a single topic” (Purdue OWL) • a form of punctuation, which stands for one idea 1 paragraph = 1 idea

2. The Paragraph as Punctuation Inword processing and desktop publishing, a hard return or paragraph break indicates a new paragraph, to be distinguished from the soft return at the end of a line internal to a paragraph. This distinction allows word wrap to automatically re-flow text as it is edited, without losing paragraph breaks. Thesoftware may apply vertical whitespace or indenting at paragraph breaks, depending on the selected style. How such documented are actually stored depends on the file format. Forexample, HTML uses the <p> tag as a paragraph container. In plaintext files, there are two common formats. Pre-formatted text will have a newline at the end of every physical line, and two newlines at the end of a paragraph, creating a blank line. An alternative is to only put newlines at the end of each paragraph, and leave word wrapping up to the application that displays or processes the text (if it is even necessary). Inword processing and desktop publishing, a hard return or paragraph break indicates a new paragraph, to be distinguished from the soft return at the end of a line internal to a paragraphThis distinction allows word wrap to automatically re-flow text as it is edited, without losing paragraph breaks Thesoftware may apply vertical whitespace or indenting at paragraph breaks, depending on the selected style How such documented are actually stored depends on the file format Forexample, HTML uses the <p> tag as a paragraph container. In plaintext files, there are two common formats Pre-formatted text will have a newline at the end of every physical line, and two newlines at the end of a paragraph, creating a blank line An alternative is to only put newlines at the end of each paragraph, and leave word wrapping up to the application that displays or processes the text (if it is even necessary) n word processing and desktop publishing, a hard return or paragraph break indicates a new paragraph, to be distinguished from the soft return at the end of a line internal to a paragraphhis distinction allows word wrap to automatically re-flow text as it is edited, without losing paragraph breakshe software may apply vertical whitespace or indenting at paragraph breaks, depending on the selected style owsuch documented are actually stored depends on the file format or example, HTML uses the <p> tag as a paragraph container. In plaintext files, there are two common formatsre-formatted text will have a newline at the end of every physical line, and two newlines at the end of a paragraph, creating a blank linen alternative is to only put newlines at the end of each paragraph, and leave word wrapping up to the application that displays or processes the text (if it is even necessary) - taken from “Paragraph” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragraph

3. Paragraph Sandwich Topic Sentence(s) Example Analysis • Transition Sentence(s) *note: 1 paragraph = 1 idea

4. Notes on Paragraphs: • Paragraphs come in many different shapes and sizes, shape your paragraph to suit your theme/main idea. • Paragraphs are a minimum of three sentences. • Smaller paragraphs can be used to transition between larger ones. Topic Sentence(s) Example Counterexample Analysis • Transition Sentence(s)