This document discusses paragraphs and their types and structure. It defines a paragraph as a self-contained unit dealing with a particular point or idea that consists of one or more sentences. It describes three main types of paragraphs: narrative, descriptive, and expository. Narrative paragraphs tell a story, descriptive paragraphs allow the reader to visualize through description, and expository paragraphs provide information or explain a subject. The document also outlines three main rules for paragraph writing: unity, where each paragraph deals with one topic; order, where ideas are logically sequenced; and variety, where paragraphs are of different lengths to avoid monotony.

1. PARAGRAPH WRITING
By:
Safeer Ali

2. PARAGRAPH
A paragraph is a self-contained unit of a discourse in writing dealing with a
particular point or idea. A paragraph consists of one or more sentences.

3. Types of Paragraph
Narrative
descriptive
expository
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4. Narrative paragraphs:
Narrative paragraphs are a lot of fun to write. Here you can tell your
reader a story from beginning to end. You don't have to imagine
anything out of the ordinary - only tell the story, tell what happened.
Descriptive paragraphs:
Good descriptive paragraphs are really fun to read because they fuel
your imagination. A good description allows the reader to be a part of
your world, to clearly imagine the scene, to feel the sensations, the
smells and the tastes of the subject you are writing about.
Expository paragraph:
In an expository paragraph, you give information. You explain a subject,
give directions, or show how something happens. In expository writing,
linking words like first, second, then, and finally are usually used to
help readers follow the ideas.

5. Rules of Paragraph Writing
1. UNITY:
2. ORDER:
3. VARIETY:

6. UNITY
The first and most important principle to be observed in constructing a paragraph is that of Unity. Just as each
sentence deals with one thought, each paragraph must deal with one topic or idea- and with no more than one. In
writing an essay, for example, every head, and every sub-head, should have its own paragraph to itself. And every
sentence in the paragraph must be closely connected with the main topic of the paragraph. The paragraph and every
part of it must be the expression of one theme or topic. The topic, theme or subject of a paragraph is very often
expressed in one sentence of the paragraph - generally the first. This sentence is called the topical sentence (because
it states the topic), or the key-sentence (because it unlocks or opens the subject to be dealt with in the paragraph).

7. ORDER
The second principle of paragraph construction is Order - that is, logical sequence of
thought or development of the subject. Events must be related in the order of their
occurrence, and all ideas should be connected with the leading idea and arranged according
to their importance or order.

8. VARIETY
A third principle of paragraph construction is Variety; by which is meant that, to avoid
monotony, the paragraph of composition should be of different lengths, and not always of the
same sentence construction.