Here's an example: if the essay is on the conservative party and its policies, and the last paragraph has been about the way the party makes objections to the european community, how should you put the link in the beginning of the next paragraph? don't put: this is a major part of conservative thinking. One way of linking paragraphs is to ask a question at the end of one paragraph, and then answer it in the next. This is a possible way of linking paragraphs, but many tutors don't like it, and in any case you shouldn't use it more than once or twice in an essay. The first is that this kind of question answer sequence is very common in journalism, and an academic essay should be more formal than that. The second is that it doesn't sound as if you are in control of the essay it sounds as if you are finding things out for the first time, and an academic essay should be more controlled and confident than that. As we've seen, you can make a link by repeating key words or phrases from the previous paragraph. So you could reiterate 'dickens, hardy and eliot' as 'victorian novelists', or 'leeds, manchester and newcastle' as 'northern cities'.

Reiteration makes for an even weaker link than repetition, so you shouldn't rely on it as your main form of linking. In general, you should aim to put a link in between each paragraph and the one before it. In academic writing, effective paragraphs serve as building blocks to construct a complex analysis or argument. Paragraphing helps readers to understand and process your ideas into meaningful units of thought. Paragraphs create order and logic by helping your reader recognize the boundaries where one point ends and another begins.

For example, you can set a goal of writing four to six sentences per paragraph: in that number of sentences you can announce an idea, prove that idea with evidence, and explain why this evidence matters by linking it to the overall goal of your paper. In the final version of your paper you may have a shorter paragraph or two. Short paragraphs call a lot of attention to themselves, so they can effectively emphasize a point. Too many short paragraphs, however, may indicate that your ideas are not developed with evidence and analysis. You'll generally read and write longer paragraphs in academic papers. However, too many long paragraphs can provide readers with too much information to manage at one time.

Readers need planned pauses or breaks when reading long complex papers in order to understand your presented ideas. Remember this writing mantra: give your readers a break! or good paragraphs give one pause! thinking about paragraphs rigidly in terms of length may lead to formulaic writing. Instead, as you revise your draft think about how each sentence is functioning in your paragraph, and whether your paragraph has sufficient functional sentences to make its point. transition sentences guide your reader smoothly from the topic of the preceding paragraph into the topic of your new paragraph.

Writers sometimes begin with a transition sentence before introducing the topic of the new paragraph. Beginning a paragraph with a topic sentence ensures your reader recognizes early in the paragraph what larger idea the paragraph is going to demonstrate. Expert writers may not introduce the topic until the middle or end of the paragraph, and often imply their topics without ever writing a topic sentence. These sentences work to analyze data or quotations, describe a text or event, set up a comparison, showcase evidence, and sometimes they enumerate the logical points for readers to give them a sense of a paper's bigger picture. In body sentences, you need to consider how much quoted data or evidence will demonstrate or prove your point. linking sentences relate back to the paper's main argument by showing how the idea of that paragraph matches the overall goal of the paper.

concluding sentences may bring a section to its end before you move on to a new section of the paper. Notice how the writer develops the idea in the body sentences, as promised in the first sentence, and concludes her paragraph by offering a keen, close observation of specific details. In order to understand how manet's work echoes or communicates with titian's, one must first consider the similarities between their paintings. More than that, however, manet directly copies the composition of titian's venus the overwhelming similarity in color and the figures' arrangement in each painting prove this.