Day 155: Pace ideas within paragraphs with context, content, and conclusion.

An effective paragraph discusses one idea and uses the context, content, and conclusion structure. Let’s say you are going to write a long paragraph about a “big” idea, one that has several sub-topics, supporting arguments, or details. How can you organize one paragraph to fit all this in?

Many writers will break the large paragraph into a series of shorter paragraphs. This is a good strategy. The smaller paragraphs with discrete topics compose your entire discussion of the larger idea. But now let’s say that you want to discuss the entire idea in one paragraph.

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To make these long paragraphs understandable, logical, and coherent, you use the same pattern: context, content, and conclusion. However, you do this for each sub-topic in the paragraph, i.e., you repeat this pattern for each point you make. This paces your ideas, helps the reader identify individual issues, and organizes the information logically. This also allows you to make a series of concluding, or impact, statements that, together, present the one central idea of the paragraph.

In short, use the 3 Cs for each sub-topic in your paragraph.