<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # My sentence-and-paragraph method requires patience... > My sentence-and-paragraph method requires patience at every extraction boundary. Before I mark a sentence, I ask whether an unfamiliar reader can identify its subject, understand the relationship it asserts, and carry away a consequence. Before I mark a paragraph with , I ask whether its first sentence provides an entrance, whether its middle earns the claim, and whether its last sentence completes the movement. I expect every writer or language model using this method to perform the same tests. 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 ``` “My sentence-and-paragraph method requires patience at every extraction boundary. Before I mark a sentence, I ask whether an unfamiliar reader can identify its subject, understand the relationship it asserts, and carry away a consequence. Before I mark a paragraph with , I ask whether its first sentence provides an entrance, whether its middle earns the claim, and whether its last sentence completes the movement. I expect every writer or language model using this method to perform the same tests. If either unit fails after removal, the answer is not better markup. The answer is better writing.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-sentence-paragraph-method-answer-better-writing ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->