By: Shawn Cox
Submitted: 2010-04-29 11:13:36 | Word Count: 359
How to Make the Best Paragraphs
Titles
A reader would always commit to a writing piece that has a good title. Hence, it is imperative that a writer starts a good essay or any paper with a good working title. This title needs to be catchy; it needs to suggest whatever the piece is all about. Hence, it is a brief view of the whole piece. The title progresses with the paper hence, the title can be changed along the way. The main point, however, is that it needs to remain “controversial.” Look at the news headlines that demand attention from avid and not so avid readers. It lures the readers to read on and find out what the whole story is all about.
The Topic Paragraph
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Topic sentence and thesis statement are usually interchanged by most student writers. The topic of your piece is often the thesis or the gist of your argument; hence they can be taken as one. It must be concise and straight to the point and it has to be introduced at the onset of the paper. This way, the interest of the readers is sustained. The topic sentence is often contained in the first paragraph or in the topic paragraph. The next paragraph should then sustain or justify the reader’s inquiry by expanding the thesis or the topic into a more coherent body. Sometimes, student writers take into a grand introduction and leave out the more important topic hidden in the third paragraph of the paper. This should not be the practice, however. Students must practice getting to the finer points quickly. It will engage the audience right away and further arouse their interests up to the time the points have been well explained in the body of the paper. Verbs should also support the paragraphs more than any noun, pronoun or adverbs or superlatives. A writer must make each writing piece simple and clear, with only one topic sentence per paragraph. This topic or thesis statement must be bold and engaging or else, the audience will be lost and the paper will have no purpose.
