The process of paragraph writing

What is the assignment?
What are you going to write about?
How can you narrow the subject to a topic?
Who is the audience?
What is the purpose of this paragraph?
These questions emphasize the goals of this easy-to-understand guide to writing effective paragraphs. Among these goals are: learning basic sentence and paragraph skills; assimilating and improving the organizational skills needed for writing academic assignments; attaining self-confidence in writing coherent prose.

These goals are fulfilled by:

- Using student samples.
- posing a series of questions about invention, organization, and revision.
- including a limited grammar and structure review.
- offering an opportunity to write about topics of individual interest.
- concentrating on actual writing instead of on theories of writing.
- approaching the various processes in writing a paragraph step by step.
- providing a variety of exercises and assignments that focus essential skills in increasingly complex contexts.