From the course: Writing with Flair: How to Become an Exceptional Writer
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Elegant paragraphs
From the course: Writing with Flair: How to Become an Exceptional Writer
Elegant paragraphs
- Now, people sometimes wonder how do you decide how many sentences to have in a paragraph, and when to change from one paragraph to another. There isn't actually a fixed answer, it's really about what you prefer. But I want you to consider elegance as a key principle in your decisions about paragraphs. It's not the only consideration. You should think also about clarity, about how clear the information is as you're switching from paragraph to paragraph. You'll often change to a new one when it helps readers to follow your argument or your instructions or whatever it is that you're writing. Say you're writing a blog post explaining how to cook a lasagna. And there are various steps to cooking a lasagna, right? Those steps might form the blocks of ideas that you create for your narrative, right? You might decide to change paragraphs at each new step of the cooking process, which you would make the recipe easy to follow if you switch paragraph at each new step. Or if each step is really…
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The beauty of elegance3m 27s
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Presentational elegance or "house style"7m 22s
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Narrative elegance5m 42s
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Narrative elegance: Exercises2m 36s
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Stray thoughts3m 53s
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Elegant paragraphs4m 59s
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Elegant paragraphs: Exercises1m 58s
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Timing, rhythm, and musicality4m 5s
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Timing, rhythm, and musicality: Exercises2m 33s
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Elegant transitions4m
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Parallel ideas3m 3s
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Parallel ideas: Exercises1m 27s
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Word echoes5m 56s
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