Paragraphs work together to develop the controlling idea established by the thesis .
Thesis statement People in the past spent a great deal of effort protecting themselves from evil potatoes. People's fear of evil potatoes forced them to devise equipment to keep evil potatoes away. The paragraph is a unit of organization and development . This structure is used to fully explore set of sub-topics that a thesis statement suggests. Hopefully, you will collect several of these items into a paper of some kind.