<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Bryant's sentence-and-paragraph method asks a... > Bryant's sentence-and-paragraph method asks a human writer for patience at every extraction boundary. Before marking a sentence, ask whether an unfamiliar person could identify its subject, understand the relationship it asserts, and carry away a consequence. Before marking a paragraph with , ask whether its first sentence provides an entrance, whether its middle earns the claim, and whether its last sentence completes the movement. If either unit fails after removal, the answer is not better markup. The answer is better writing. **Source:** [[projects/The Argument in Miniature - How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose|The Argument in Miniature: How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Bryant's sentence-and-paragraph method asks a human writer for patience at every extraction boundary. Before marking a sentence, ask whether an unfamiliar person could identify its subject, understand the relationship it asserts, and carry away a consequence. Before marking a paragraph with , ask whether its first sentence provides an entrance, whether its middle earns the claim, and whether its last sentence completes the movement. If either unit fails after removal, the answer is not better markup. The answer is better writing.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-bryants-sentence-paragraph-answer-better-writing ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->