College Composition / Unit 14 CMP 0335 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Combining Thin Paragraphs
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The idea
Several very short paragraphs on the same point usually belong together as one developed paragraph.
In practice
Three two-sentence paragraphs, each giving one example of the same benefit, read better as one paragraph with a single topic sentence.
Where people slip
Combining works only when the paragraphs share a point; joining unrelated ones breaks unity.
Your place on the trail
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