Paragraph Writing

 
Paragraph Structure

This resource from the University of Illinois in Urbana guides you through the elements of an effective paragraph and gives lots of examples.

The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) gives advice on how to write effective paragraphs.



Topic Sentences

This article provides information about how to write an effective topic sentence that has both a topic and a controlling idea. It also gives a basic idea about what the differences are between topic sentence for a paragraph and a thesis statement for an essay.