Quote by William Strunk Jr Download Open image ““1. Make the paragraph the unit of composition: one paragraph to each topic.”” — William Strunk Jr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“2. As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence; end it in conformity with the beginning.” — William Strunk Jr Copy Share Image
I am terribly interested in the paragraph: the paragraph as an object, the construction, and the possibilities of what a paragraph can do. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. — Barrett Wendell Copy Share Image
This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Writing improves in direct ratio to the number of things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.” — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Regina read all this, thinking with each sentence she'd put the book down. But a sentence became a paragraph, which flowed on into a… — Deborah Johnson Copy Share Image
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“One of the things that should go into the writer's notebook is a set of experiments with the sentence. A convenient and challenging place… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“I make work that is many things at once: poems that are prose, that are pictures, that are poem and picture. Actions that are… — Jen Besemer Copy Share Image
“It is an old observation that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric. When they do so, however, the reader will usually… — William Strunk Jr Copy Share Image
“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessay sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should… — William Strunk Jr Copy Share Image
“2. As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence; end it in conformity with the beginning.” — William Strunk Jr Copy Share Image
“Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract.” — William Strunk Jr Copy Share Image
“Violence - the kind you see on television - is not honestly violent, there lies its harm.” — William Strunk Jr Copy Share Image
