Whatever Happened to the Paragraph?
Mike Duncan

For the last several years, composition scholarship has unfortunately neglected the paragraph.  Theories about it, however, have a rich history.  Eventually, it involved conflicts between prescriptivists and descriptivists, as well as between members of the latter group and the branch of descriptivism called functionalism.  Composition researchers should study the paragraph once again, this time forging connections with similar work in other disciplines. 

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