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A Writer's Guide to Powerful Paragraphs

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This book is smart. It is practical and helpful. Besides offering many great ideas on writing coherant paragraphs, it becomes an excellent aid to brainstorming. My only gripe is that there is no bibliography for reference and further study, and no references to recommended paragraphs by other writers. Still, I know of no book quite like this. I'm glad I bought it.

A Writer's Guide To Powerful Paragraphs by Victor C. Pellegrino is a straightforward, easy-to-understand how-to guide to improving the quality of one's writing, one paragraph at a time. Aspiring writers are provided with thirty different but effective ways to organize and write competent paragraphs, including paragraphs focused on chronology, physical or process analysis, classification, enumeration, cause and effect, dialogue, anecdotes, introductions, conclusions, transitions, and a great deal more. Highly recommended and quite "user friendly", A Writer's Guide To Powerful Paragraphs is a superbly organized and presented supplement for aspiring authors of all ages, backgrounds, and experience levels ranging from the high school novice, through community college and university level writing assignments, to professional contract and free-lance authors.

This book is being used by two highschool students in my home. The examples given in the book have been helpful to both students, showing them structure as well as content. I recommend this book as a supplement to any writing course. It is used so frequently, I purchased an additional copy.

Victor C. Pellegrino has written four extremely interesting books on writing, each of which is usable by high school students through experienced writers.

For aspiring writers, "A Writer's Guide to Powerful Paragraphs" provides a framework for properly learning what a paragraph is - and then proceeds to describe thirty ways to write paragraphs. Interestingly, Pellegrino's approach is equally effective for the experienced writer who simply needs a bit of a boost or reminder of what paragraphs are all about or some inspiration.

Pellegrino provides a general introduction to paragraph construction (one thought per paragraph!) and then thirty short chapters on different ways to write paragraphs. In Pellegrino's own words, he provides "a short, simple and direct explanation of one type of paragraph, followed by an example, an analysis of the example, and practical suggestions for writing that type of paragraph". His own writing is extremely clear and, as odd as it may sound, refreshing. He is not t all condescending and brings a refreshing enthusiasm to his description. The book is fun reading.

"A Writer's Guide to Powerful Paragraphs" is useful because it gives you a short and handy reference to all the ways in which you might approach a paragraph. I cannot speak for other writers, but I know I sometimes lock myself into a single viewpoint and something like this book will snap me out of it.

Pellegrino is definitely gifted. His four little books on writing belong on or near every writer's desk. I'm glad I discovered his work.

Jerry

This text is concise, clear and very useful. If you need help with creating powerful and persuasive paragrahs, and who doesn't, this book is for you.

There are plenty of writing guides available for writers in every stage of their careers. A Writer's Guide to Powerful Paragraphs is definitely one of those how-to guides better suited for beginning writers.

The author models his paragraphs the way I learned all the way back in high school. This is not to say that it's a bad thing, but it is geared more for non-fiction writing of the formal essay variety more than anything else.

More than that, this book's formatting is amateurish at best. Every paragraph in the book has a space between it; no doubt put there in order tom make this little how-to book long enough to able to use perfect binding.

There's really nothing new here. And for a writer looking to strengthen his/her own writing style one might be better off simply reading works from other well-known writers whose style they admire in order to learn more.

This book offers a safe route to writing paragraphs that will honor your readers and pay tribute to your intellect. A thoroughly illustrated collection of 30 ways to write paragraphs, "A Writer's Guide to Powerful Paragraphs" will help you save time by planning and organizing your writing.

There is nothing literary about these suggestions. More a repetition of simple, beginner ideas about organizational structure.

This is a good book and I used it only once or twice. I don't even remember reading it. Why am I saying this? Because in this day and age there is a thing called Internet and you can find everything that you need without cluttering your house with books. Some may disagree on this and even I have a library at my house but I noticed I use the internet most often. Of course, I am not getting rid of my books either. So...everyone is different. You can get this book if you are gonna use it and don't mind the extra junk piling up.

When I sit in the smallest room in my house I like to read something. This book is ideal! The chapters are paragraph types, and are short, with examples that are clear and easy to understand. A book you can read a little at a time, or until your feet go asleep. A very useful guide to writing paragraphs. Worth the price with great practical, useful examples. A Writer's Guide to Powerful Paragraphs