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What is a paragraph about?

Ask: I have multiple paragraph on the same page. What is a paragraph rule?

Answer: The Basic Rule: Keep one idea to one paragraph! Paragraph length. Long paragraphs wear a reader down.
Avoid writing more than five or six sentences in a paragraph before you break.

New Topic

This one’s mainly for essays. Every time you go on to a new topic, you should make a new paragraph.

New paragraphs are important for the reader.
They tell when you’re switching time, place, topic or speaker, and they help break the page up so it is not just a solid block of writing.
Seeing that can be discouraging, and you don’t want your reader to be discouraged before she even starts to read.                                                                                                   Learning how to break your stories and essays into paragraphs is a confusing but important job. Nobody ever really sits down to tell you the basic rules about when to make a new paragraph, so you generally have to muddle along, making the rules up for yourself.

This is too bad.

You can break a piece of writing into paragraphs after you’ve written it, or you can do it as you go.
Doing it as you go is the best choice, but you might not be able to do that right off the bat.

How to do it

There are a few standard times to make a new paragraph:

• When you start in on a new topic
• When you skip to a new time
• When you skip to a new place
• When a new person begins to speak
• When you want to produce a dramatic effect