Good afternoon and welcome to strategy for paragraphs technique for technique four continues on organization. We started with intros and then we went to conclusions. What do you want to put in those? How do you want to do those and emphasize those and then we talked about overall organization and how to structure pieces to give them some clarity, some flow some structure, and for this one, it is also about paragraphs themselves, and it states very paragraph links for pace and flow. Sound familiar is very similar to very similar structures for pacing flow, have a natural organic variation of different cons in order to make it have a nice lyrical flow make it easy to follow. Have the shorter paragraphs for emphasis just like the shorter sentences for emphasis.

If you want something to be terse, if you want to emphasize it if you want it to pop if you want it to have emotional effect. Make sure you use a shorter paragraph and use a longer paragraph for ideas that are more complex ideas That build on themselves more, and maybe ideas that have more mellow, mellow type emotions in them in many cases and less emphasis but more of in some cases a meandering flow, but not boring in that sense, but just things that are more complex. Very paragraph links create an organic flow of ideas likewise allow form to fit function. For longer and slower situations use long paragraphs for urgency and emphasis. Use shorter paragraphs. All ideas in a paragraph should be on the same main idea in flow logically.

So all paragraphs should, within one paragraph, you want to have one main idea. Now that main idea may flow through two or three paragraphs before you finish that point. But you still want to have one unified main idea in each paragraph. And within each paragraph, I mean, among all the paragraphs, you also want them to flow logically. Don't forget about transitions. sentences and transitions are important, whether it is a transitional phrase, like Moreover, so on next, however, and also a transitional thought that looks backwards at the paragraph before it and forwards at the next paragraph to create seamless, ideal links.

So think about how you want to leave the reader from that break in that idea to the next one. When you're transitioning paragraphs. don't overuse longer short paragraphs, but create paragraph breaks that increase effect. So that is another thing to think about an example here. Here's an example of a short paragraph that works. There was no way to clear her name.

If that stood on its own. It would be a shock moment for the reader, whether you're following someone's biography, or a newspaper article on someone, something that happened to her, or if there were, if it were a longer piece of fiction, if you had been following all these adventures. And these longer paragraphs and then suddenly it stopped. And you started a new paragraph and said, there was no way to clear her name, it would just stand out and it would jump out at you. And that's the point of a short paragraph. This stands alone emphasizes the point and build urgency.

Longer paragraphs would encapsulate groups of ideas within a larger concept and build a slower narrative voice. And so since those are longer, I want to include one, but you can see lots of examples of those. If you look at fiction, nonfiction, any kind of effective writing, you should see a natural flow and variety. And within that, you want to see that paragraph links have a specific function for the form or for the emphasis that they're trying to create. And so the last technique in this strategy pair strategy for paragraphs is to vary paragraph lengths for pace and flow. And remember that strategy for was to Pardon me, it was basically you want to make sure that paragraph links vary for form and function and intros and conclusions should also fit their form and function and do what they need to do.

And that is the end of strategy four. I hope you've enjoyed the first half of the course and I will see you in the next section.