Paragraph

In typography, a paragraph is a block of text. Paragraphs are put on a new line and are usually indented, although not on many web sites, including Wikipedia. The paragraph symbol, the pilcrow, is ?. In HTML, a new paragraph is created with the '<p>' tag, and the pilcrow symbol is &para;. A paragraph is 5-7 sentences that are all about the same thing.

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In literature, a detail is a small piece of information within a paragraph. A detail usually exists to support or explain a main idea.

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For example, the following paragraph is an excerpt from Dr. Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets. The first sentence represents the main idea, that Joseph Addison is a skilled "describer of life and manners". Further, each succeeding sentence is a detail that supports and explains the main idea.

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