Writing Book 5 · Lesson 18

Clear Paragraphs

A clear paragraph carries one idea and does not make the reader work.

What you read today

Paragraph Town, pages 55–57 — the chapter Clear Paragraphs.

This lesson's text is the book itself. Your teacher has the pages; read them with the class, then do the work on your sheet.

Remember
Read it as a writer: not only what happens, but what the author did to make it happen that way.
Ask yourself: “What is the one idea here?”

Remember

One idea, clearly.

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