Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European.... paragraphos, "to write beside" or "written beside") is a self-contained unit of a discourse in writing
Writing
Writing is the representation of language in a textual Media through the use of a set of signs or symbols . It is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and the recording of language via a non-textual medium such as Magnetic tape sound recording.... dealing with a particular point or idea
Idea
An idea is a form formed by consciousness through the process of Ideation . Human capability to contemplate ideas is associated with the ability of reasoning, human self-reflection, and of the ability to acquire and apply intellect, intuition, inspiration, etc..... . The start of a paragraph is indicated by beginning on a new line. Sometimes the first line is indented; sometimes it is indented without beginning a new line. At various times the beginning of a paragraph has been indicated by the pilcrow
Pilcrow
The pilcrow , also called the paragraph sign or the alinea , is a typographical character commonly used to denote individual paragraphs.... : ¶.
A paragraph typically consists of a unifying main point, thought, or idea accompanied by supporting details.
Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European.... paragraphos, "to write beside" or "written beside") is a self-contained unit of a discourse in writing
Writing
Writing is the representation of language in a textual Media through the use of a set of signs or symbols . It is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and the recording of language via a non-textual medium such as Magnetic tape sound recording.... dealing with a particular point or idea
Idea
An idea is a form formed by consciousness through the process of Ideation . Human capability to contemplate ideas is associated with the ability of reasoning, human self-reflection, and of the ability to acquire and apply intellect, intuition, inspiration, etc..... . The start of a paragraph is indicated by beginning on a new line. Sometimes the first line is indented; sometimes it is indented without beginning a new line. At various times the beginning of a paragraph has been indicated by the pilcrow
Pilcrow
The pilcrow , also called the paragraph sign or the alinea , is a typographical character commonly used to denote individual paragraphs.... : ¶.
A paragraph typically consists of a unifying main point, thought, or idea accompanied by supporting details. The non-fiction paragraph usually begins with the general and moves towards the more specific so as to advance an argument or point of view. Each paragraph builds on what came before and lays the ground for what comes next. Paragraphs generally range three to seven sentences all combined in a single paragraphed statement. In prose
Prose
Prose is writing that resembles everyday Speech communication. The word "prose" is derived from the Latin prosa, which literally translates to "straightforward".... fiction
Fiction
Fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events.... successive details, for example; but it is just as common for the point of a prose paragraph to occur in the middle or the end. A paragraph can be as short as one word or run the length of multiple pages, and may consist of one or many sentences. When dialogue is being quoted in fiction, a new paragraph is used each time the person being quoted changed.
Indenting
The correct practice of indenting is to not indent the first paragraph but to indent all those that subsequently follow. This follows the logic that the purpose of indenting is to separate paragraphs in a way that lets the reader know where one paragraph finishes and another begins. The general American practice, which could be considered wrong if following orthodox convention, is to indicate all paragraphs including the first, by indenting the first line (three to five spaces), with blank lines between paragraphs, while business writing uses blank lines and no indent (these are sometimes known as "block paragraphs"). For educational papers indents and no blank lines are preferred. Most published books use a device to separate certain paragraphs further when there is a change of scene or time. This extra space, especially when co-occurring at a page break, may contain an asterisk
Asterisk
An 'asterisk' is a typographical symbol or glyph. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a star. Computer scientists and mathematicians often pronounce it as star .... , three asterisks, a special stylistic dingbat
Dingbat
A dingbat is an ornament, character or spacer used in typesetting, sometimes more formally known as a "printer's ornament" or "printer's character".... , or a special symbol known as an asterism
Asterism (typography)
In typography, an asterism is a rarely used symbol consisting of three asterisks placed in a triangle . It is used to call attention to a passage or to separate subchapters in a book.... .
Hanging paragraph
A "hanging paragraph" is a paragraph in which the first line of a paragraph is not indented and in which the following line or lines are indented.
Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction.... , a "detail" is a small piece of information
Information
Information as a Conveyed concept has a diversity of meanings, from everyday usage to technical settings. Generally speaking, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control system, data, form, instruction, knowledge, Meaning , stimulation, pattern, perception, and knowledge representation.... within a paragraph. A detail usually exists to support or explain a main idea. In the following excerpt from Dr. Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson was an English author. Beginning as a Grub Street journalist, he made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, novelist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.... 's Lives of the English Poets, the first sentence
Sentence (linguistics)
In linguistics, a sentence is a grammatical unit of one or more words, bearing minimal syntactic relation to the words that precede or follow it, often preceded and followed in speech by pauses, having one of a small number of characteristic intonation patterns, and typically expressing an independent statement, question, request, command, et... is the main idea, that Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
??File:Joseph Addison.pngJoseph Addison was an English essayist and poet. He was a man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot Addison, and later the dean of Lichfield.... is a skilled "describer of life and manners". The succeeding sentences are details that support and explain the main idea in a specific way.
As a describer of life and manners, he must be allowed to stand perhaps the first of the first rank. His humour, which, as Steele observes, is peculiar to himself, is so happily diffused as to give the grace of novelty to domestic scenes and daily occurrences. He never "o'ersteps the modesty of nature," nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said to invent; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to suppose them not merely the product of imagination.
Body paragraph
Begin with a topic sentence which states the main point of the paragraph.
Give supporting details to support that main point.
Conclude with a closing sentence which restates the main point.
The Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, or XHTML, is a markup language that has the same depth of expression as HTML, but also conforms to XML syntax.... , the p element marks a block of text as a paragraph - the opening tag marks the beginning of a paragraph, and the closing tag marks the end of a paragraph. The end tag is optional for legacy
Legacy system
A legacy system is an old computer system or application program that continues to be used, typically because it still functions for the users' needs, even though newer technology is available.... HTML
HTML
HTML, an Acronym and initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for Web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document?by denoting certain text as links, headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on?and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded '... , as the browser
Web browser
A Web browser is a application software which enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music, games and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network.... automatically starts another paragraph at the next tag, or the next block element
HTML element
In computing, an HTML element indicates structure in an HTML document and a way of hierarchically arranging content. More specifically, an HTML element is an Standard Generalized Markup Language element that meets the requirements of one or more of the HTML Document Type Definitions .... .
The World Wide Web Consortium is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web . It is arranged as a consortium where member organizations maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the World Wide Web.... (W3C).
