What is basic principle of paragraph development?
In academic writing, each paragraph should have a topic sentence
- that is, a sentence, usually the first in the paragraph, that
makes it clear to the reader what the topic of that particular
paragraph is going to be. For example, if I were writing an essay
about monkeys, and I wanted to write a paragraph about their mating
behaviors, I would begin that paragraph with a topic sentence such
as "The mating behaviors of monkeys are very important and
they...etc."
Once you have determined the topic for a paragraph, you should
make sure that the paragraph does NOT stray from that topic.
Similarly, you should make sure that the principle topic of each
paragraph fits in with the idea of the entire essay.
Furthermore, I recommend checking the transitions between one
paragraph and the next, so that the reader can understand the flow
of ideas in your paper and see how the different topics are linked
and fit together to form the general topic of the essay.