<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # I do not regard a paragraph as a quantity of prose... > I do not regard a paragraph as a quantity of prose placed between two blank lines. I regard it as a completed act of thought. Its opening sentence establishes the territory. Its supporting sentences develop the mechanism, evidence, example, pressure, or consequence. Its final sentence tells the reader what the paragraph has made possible to understand. {{A paragraph is complete when its last sentence could not have been written honestly before its first sentence began.}} **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 ``` “I do not regard a paragraph as a quantity of prose placed between two blank lines. I regard it as a completed act of thought. Its opening sentence establishes the territory. Its supporting sentences develop the mechanism, evidence, example, pressure, or consequence. Its final sentence tells the reader what the paragraph has made possible to understand. A paragraph is complete when its last sentence could not have been written honestly before its first sentence began.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-regard-paragraph-quantity-first-sentence-began ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->