The Essentials of Paragraph Writing to Develop Writing Skill

Abstract

Paragraph is a group of related sentences dealing with a central idea. It is important to practice writing, develop writing skill, organize thoughts and improve the bent of expression. It starts with an attitude in the topic sentence, develops coherently and cohesively with the supporting ideas and ends with the restatement of the theme of the topic sentence. It requires two important factors – free hand writing and in-depth knowledge on the rules of introducing, developing, modulating and terminating. Besides, the unity, logical arrangement of supporting ideas, coherence, cohesion, completeness etc are the important elements of paragraph. But there is a false allegation to paragraph writing. Most of our teachers say that paragraph has no rules. For this, our students commit it for examination only and as such, suffer from poor writing skill. Thus, this paper aims at finding out the theories or rules of paragraph writing for writing practice and developing their writing skill.