Parks, A. Franklin.

Structuring Paragraphs : A Guide to Effective Writing / A. Franklin Parks, James A. Levernier, Ida Masters Hollowell. - 3rd ed. - New York : St. Martin's Press, c1991. - xiii, 247 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

The general-to-specific paragraph; how to begin writing paragraphs; paragraph unity and structure; methods of development - example, cause and effect, and process analysis; three other methods of development - definition, comparison and contrast, and classfication; achieving coherence; from paragraph to essay; revising paragraphs and essays; from explanation to argumentation; a concise guide to editing sentences.

Guiding students through the whole range and use of paragraphs, this book looks at the planning, organization, writing and revising of paragraphs. It features a new chapter on argument and a new concise guide to editing sentences.

0312035063 (pbk.)


English language--Paragraphs.
English language--Rhetoric.
Report writing.

PE1439 / .P37 1991