Some Thoughts On Paragraphing

Paragraphs are important. If you’ve ever read something longer than a page or so that doesn’t use paragraphs, well, you’ll wish they had used paragraphs. But what is the best way to demarcate separate paragraphs? There are two common approaches:

Put a blank line between each new paragraph. Indent the first line of each new paragraph

The approach that is better often depends on a range of factors.

For instance, different publications have different style guides. If you’re submitting somethin...