Introduction

With the introduction to your report, you have begun to express your ideas at the paragraph and sentence level, and you have moved beyond the organizational stage of the writing process. If you have developed your pyramid outline far enough, you might even be able to see all your main ideas expressed all the way down to the paragraph level. At the very least, the structure of your report should be clear. Your job at this stage is to compose your paragraphs so that your reader will be able to understand all the information used to support your main message. You know how your ideas are arranged in your report; you just have to get down to the business of writing them in paragraphs and sentences.

This module, therefore, focuses on writing at the paragraph and sentence level and treats both topics in detail. You will learn to recognize features of well-written paragraphs and sentences, and you will gain experience with specific techniques that can help make your writing more coherent, unified, and logically organized.