Keep in mind that every paragraph should contain a topic sentence and that the topic sentence controls the rest of that paragraph. A good topic sentence controls the paragraph by developing specific, easily defined terms. AND John is wildly eccentric in both his private and public life. After the topic sentence has established control, the rest of the paragraph should expand on the central ideal of that topic. Each paragraph thus develops only one major point, the point of the topic sentence.
Most paragraphs use examples that illustrate the topic sentence.
You would probably complete the paragraph with several examples of his generosity. In any case, every point made in a paragraph must relate to the controlling idea of the topic sentence. In the above paragraph about your father s generous nature, you wouldn t describe his appearance or talk about his love for baseball.