Sciences Publishing now offers translation services in addition to expert scientific and medical editing. We now offer translation from Japanese, German, Portuguese, French, and Spanish to English. We are adding new languages daily, so please inquire. The last 2 issues of this newsletter dealt with how to choose better words and how to write better sentences. It is a group of related sentences dealing with a single topic.
Effective paragraphs have a topic sentence, unity, coherence, and good development.
Let s look at each of these in turn. The topic sentence explains the topic of the paragraph and it is usually best to place this sentence at or near the beginning of the paragraph. A good paragraph has unity, which means that it deals only with one subject and does not wander from topic to topic. Coherence in a paragraph is related to unity and refers to the bridges or links between sentences. These links may be logical or verbal.