PARAGRAPH Paragraphs are the building blocks of papers. Many students define paragraphs in terms of length: a paragraph is a group of at least five sentences, a paragraph is half a page long, etc. In reality, though, the unity and coherence of ideas among sentences is what constitutes a paragraph. A paragraph is defined as “a group of sentences or a single sentence that forms a unit” (Lunsford and Connors 116). Length and appearance do not determine whether a section in a paper is a paragraph. For instance, in some styles of writing, particularly journalistic styles, a paragraph can be just one sentence long. Ultimately, a paragraph is a sentence or group of sentences that support one main idea. In this handout, we will refer to this as the “controlling idea,” because it controls what happens in the rest of the paragraph. Eff...
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STUDY SKILLS ————————— These skills are employed to make language richer and students need all these skills to improve themselves. They are crucial and essential in every community where communication is expected to be effective, in fact, we cannot divorce one from the other. Before entering a university or any other higher institution, it is expected that the basic minimum standard of intelligibility must have been acquired. Besides, the standard of speaking is not as important as the writing, listening, and reading skills in determining the admission of students into tertiary institutions. Yet the inculcation of this speaking skill is the most demanding of facilities and resources. Speaking skill is productive while listening is receptive. This is so because a speaker is expected to impac...