Theme of The Week is a single element you critique in your assigned book. This way if paired with a member more than once, you get to give feedback on something different.

This week, we will give feedback on Paragraph Structure.

❝The most important unit of meaning in every literary work is the paragraph. Although each sentence conveys a thought, a literary work is not just a sequence of, say, eighty thoughts; it is rather a development of one central thesis through certain steps. Those steps are paragraphs. Within an effective paragraph the sentences support and extend one another in various ways, making a single, usually complex, unfolding idea. Apart from outright incoherence, choppiness, or long-windedness, perhaps the most common flaw in paragraph construction is rigidity of presentation. Having something to say, the writer merely says it—and goes on to do just the same in the following paragraph. As a result, the reader feels, not like a participant in the writer's thought, but like someone receiving instructions or being shown a rapid succession of images.❞ ــ Wikipedia.

What to look for in Paragraph Structure?

Did the author pursue one main idea, or shifted clumsily between random ideas?
Were sentences well-linked within each paragraph?
Was each paragraph linked to the next?
Did paragraphs have varying lengths?
Was there smooth transitions between generality and detail?
Did the first paragraph count? Was it impactful enough?
Was the ending paragraph strong?