Writer can…

A UNIFIED paragraph must follow the idea mentioned in the topic sentence and must not deviate from
it.
A COHERENT paragraph has sentences that all logically follow each other; they are not isolated
thoughts. Coherence can be achieved in several ways:
1. Using TRANSITIONS helps connect ideas from one sentence to the next.
2. Referring repeatedly to the central idea/REPETITION of key words.
3. Third, ordering thoughts in NUMERICAL SEQUENCE helps to direct the reader from one point to
the next.
4. Structuring each paragraph according to a PATTERN helps to organize sentences. For example, a
writer can…
A. Begin with a GENERAL topic and continue on to particular/SPECIFIC examples;
B. Begin with the particular/SPECIFIC examples and end with the GENERAL topic;
C. Begin with a question and then answer the question;
D. Begin with an effect and then describe the cause or causes.
E. And so on….