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  2. Paragraph - Wikipedia

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    A common English usage misconception is that a paragraph has three to five sentences; single-word paragraphs can be seen in some professional writing, and journalists often use single-sentence paragraphs. [7] English students are sometimes taught that a paragraph should have a topic sentence or "main idea", preferably first, and multiple ...

  3. Text types - Wikipedia

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    American schoolchildren and their parents are taught that literary texts contrast with informational texts that have the purpose of providing information rather than entertainment. Informational texts, such as science briefs and history books, are increasingly receiving emphasis in public school curricula as part of the Common Core State Standards.

  4. Writing style - Wikipedia

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    In literature, writing style is the manner of expressing thought in language characteristic of an individual, period, school, or nation. [1] As Bryan Ray notes, however, style is a broader concern, one that can describe "readers' relationships with, texts, the grammatical choices writers make, the importance of adhering to norms in certain contexts and deviating from them in others, the ...

  5. Narration - Wikipedia

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    Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. [1] Narration is conveyed by a narrator: a specific person, or unspecified literary voice, developed by the creator of the story to deliver information to the audience, particularly about the plot: the series of events.

  6. Descriptive poetry - Wikipedia

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    No better example of the more pedestrian class of descriptive poetry could be found than the last-mentioned poem with its minute and Dutch-like painting. [2] How often have I paused on every charm: The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm; The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighboring hill:

  7. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section - Wikipedia

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    Do not include non-English equivalents in the lead sentence just to show etymology. Non-English names should be moved to a footnote or elsewhere in the article if they would otherwise clutter the first sentence. [O] Separate languages should be divided by semicolons; romanizations of non-Latin scripts, by commas. Do not boldface non-English ...

  8. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle's proscriptive analysis of tragedy, for example, as expressed in his Rhetoric and Poetics, saw it as having 6 parts (music, diction, plot, character, thought, and spectacle) working together in particular ways. Thus, Aristotle established one of the earliest delineations of the elements that define genre.

  9. Description - Wikipedia

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    Description is any type of communication that aims to make vivid a place, object, person, group, or other physical entity. [1] It is one of four rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse ), along with exposition , argumentation , and narration .