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  2. Paragraph - Wikipedia

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    Paragraph. A paragraph (from Ancient Greek παράγραφος (parágraphos) 'to write beside') is a self-contained unit of discourse in writing dealing with a particular point or idea. Though not required by the orthographic conventions of any language with a writing system, paragraphs are a conventional means of organizing extended segments ...

  3. Lead paragraph - Wikipedia

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    Lead paragraph. A lead paragraph (sometimes shortened to lead; in the United States sometimes spelled lede) is the opening paragraph of an article, book chapter, or other written work that summarizes its main ideas. [1] Styles vary widely among the different types and genres of publications, from journalistic news-style leads to a more ...

  4. Schaffer method - Wikipedia

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    Schaffer method. The Jane Schaffer method is a formula for essay writing that is taught in some U.S. middle schools and high schools. Developed by a San Diego teacher named Jane Schaffer, who started offering training and a 45-day curriculum in 1995, it is intended to help students who struggle with structuring essays by providing a framework ...

  5. Topic sentence - Wikipedia

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    Topic sentence. In expository writing, a topic sentence is a sentence that summarizes the main idea of a paragraph. [1][2] It is usually the first sentence in a paragraph. Also known as a focus sentence, it encapsulates or organizes an entire paragraph. Although topic sentences may appear anywhere in a paragraph, in academic essays they often ...

  6. Pilcrow - Wikipedia

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    In typography, the pilcrow (¶) is a glyph used to identify a paragraph. In editorial production the pilcrow typographic character may also be known as the paragraph mark, the paragraph sign, the paragraph symbol, the paraph, and the blind P. [1] In writing and editorial practice, authors and editors use the pilcrow glyph to indicate the start ...

  7. Opening sentence - Wikipedia

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    Inspired by the opening, "It was a dark and stormy night...", the annual tongue-in-cheek Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest invites entrants to compose "the opening sentence of the worst of all possible novels", [5] and its derivative, the Lyttle Lytton Contest, for its equivalent in brevity.

  8. Nut graph - Wikipedia

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    Nut graph. In the structure of written articles in journalism, the nut graph or nut graf (short for " nutshell paragraph ") is a paragraph following the lede, or opening paragraph, that proceeds to explain the context of the news or other story "in a nutshell". [1][2]: 261f [3] The abbreviated term can be spelled in these two ways, but also in ...

  9. Widows and orphans - Wikipedia

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    In typesetting, widows and orphans are single lines of text from a paragraph that dangle at either the beginning or end of a block of text, or form a very short final line at the end of a paragraph. [1] When split across pages, they occur at either the head or foot of a page (or column), unaccompanied by additional lines from the same paragraph.