Business documents -- such as letters, emails, memorandums and reports -- use paragraphs to separate different types of information, arguments and ideas. Paragraphs written in business format are ...

In her 1989 book The Writing Life, Annie Dillard describes a fellow writer who was asked by a student if she thought he might become a writer. “Well, do you like sentences?” the fellow writer said.

Most students when asked to write a paragraph or two on any stipulated topic begin producing lengthy essays overflowing with details. The practice is like an epidemic in government schools, especially ...

Have you ever asked yourself why some writing feels very clear and easy to understand, while other writing feels confusing? ...

"Write a paragraph on traffic jams." Have you been asked to do so in school? I was too. My teacher sometimes asked me, "Write a SHORT paragraph on a winter morning." A short paragraph! A paragraph on ...

If paragraphs continue to shrink at their current rate, they’ll soon cease to exist altogether. Should we care? If the statistics are to be believed, by the end of this sentence, I’ll have lost most ...

Paragraphs are a collection of sentences. They are used in writing to introduce new sections of a story, characters or pieces of information. Paragraphs help readers to enjoy what has been written ...