Back in my late 20s and early 30s, somewhere on the way to learning how to write like a grownup, I learned the rules for constructing a paragraph. Here on the verge of 63 and retirement, I find that ...

These sweet paragraphs can easily help you express your affection.

Business documents -- such as letters, emails, memorandums and reports -- use paragraphs to separate different types of information, arguments and ideas. Paragraphs written in business format are ...

Summer stretches before us, with all its potential for meeting research and writing goals. But if you’re going on the faculty-job market for the first time — as a recent Ph.D. or an advanced doctoral ...

You may remember those kids in grade school who struggled to "get it." The concept of paragraphing seemed to elude them, so their words spilled out on paper in a haphazard frenzy. Their work became ...

In her 1989 book The Writing Life, Annie Dillard describes a fellow writer who was asked by a student if she thought he might become a writer. “Well, do you like sentences?” the fellow writer said.

Paragraphs remain one of the most important parts of writing. They serve as containers for ideas and help break up large chunks of text, making your content easier to read. But knowing how to write a ...

If paragraphs continue to shrink at their current rate, they’ll soon cease to exist altogether. Should we care? If the statistics are to be believed, by the end of this sentence, I’ll have lost most ...