Paragraph Analysis

In this blog post I will link and then reflect on the paragraph analysis I did of my QRG.

Screenshot from my computer, 9/19/2015

After doing the paragraph analysis of my QRG, I learned a few important things about my paper. One of them is that my paragraphs don't link together as well as they should. The QRG should flow seamlessly from paragraph to paragraph and from idea to idea. The QRG should build on itself in an effective and smooth way. This is one aspect of revising I need to pay special attention to.

Also I learned that my paragraphs focus rather well on my main topic (as they should). I'm happy to see I did not have any paragraphs that rambled or got off topic. This leaves one less thing for me to worry about when revising. 

Lastly, this exercise taught me that every paragraph should serve a distinct purpose. If a paragraph is not developing the main point, giving more information, linking ideas together, or doing anything else of use, then it is unnecessary. These unnecessary paragraphs always need to be deleted, especially when writing in the fast-paced QRG genre.