A Paragraph Without Links

In practice

This worked example is constructed for this course. The paragraph reads: "The college moved its library hours earlier. Many students work in the evenings. Use of the library fell. Some administrators said students preferred studying at home. A survey found most students wanted evening hours. The college should restore them." Read each pair and name the relationship. Between the first and second sentences, the second explains why the change matters: the hours now conflict with students' schedules. Join them with a contrast or a stated link: "The college moved its library hours earlier, but many students work in the evenings." Between that and the third, the third is a result: "As a result, use of the library fell." The fourth gives a competing explanation, so signal concession: "Some administrators argued that students preferred studying at home." The fifth answers that claim: "However, a survey found that most students wanted evening hours." The last sentence is the conclusion the evidence supports: "The college should therefore restore them." The revised paragraph now reads as a chain: change, conflict, result, objection, answer, recommendation. No sentence was added and none was cut; each transition only made explicit what the sentences already implied.