Sentences with phrase «paragraph breaks»

The phrase "paragraph breaks" refers to the spaces or empty lines that separate paragraphs in written text. They help readers to visually see where one paragraph ends and another begins. Full definition
Please do not use paragraph breaks in the title, author list, or abstract.
Don't use paragraph breaks to make something go to the next page.
Often this is done by simply inserting a few extra paragraph breaks before the new scene.
A handy lesson looking at how paragraph breaks can be used by writers for dramatic effect.
As an editor and beta reader, I always say that choosing where to put paragraph breaks is a voice - dependent decision.
That means turning on all of the visual indicators that show you where paragraph breaks, tabs, and section breaks have been inserted.
Not just grammar but some sentence and paragraph breaks too.
The teacher reads two paragraphs breaking all the rules.
It is easy to teach students to recognize paragraph breaks later on.
Likewise, you should include several paragraph breaks — no one wants to read a giant block of text.
A single paragraph break should always be used between paragraphs, not two or more.
Another common mistake authors make is adding two or more paragraph breaks between paragraphs (hitting Enter more than once at the end of a paragraph).
That means they have to find and insert important paragraph breaks, and so on.
To me, it's always useful to be able to see visual representations of things like hard paragraph breaks and tabs.
The text of your cover letter should be separated by clear paragraph breaks.
If you only use paragraph breaks to create the scene breaks they can be lost in the formatting process.
From the presentation proceedings (paragraph breaks added to improve readability):
Microsoft Word's default Normal style in older versions of Word is set to not add space between paragraphs by default so authors learned to add them in manually with extra paragraph breaks instead of modifying the style settings.
[paragraph breaks omitted for the sake of brevity]
-LSB-...] words carefully, Liz Bureman explains the techniques of parataxis and hypotaxis, Jami Gold explores the link between paragraph breaks and voice, and Kristen Lamb gives us 3 ways to add the sizzle to fiction that -LSB-...]
Fiction authors should use indented paragraphs without full paragraph breaks.
When I leave comments about paragraph breaks in my editing or beta reading, I always include a disclaimer along the lines of:
This course gives you a paragraph by paragraph break down of the one to four family contract and puts out the similarities and differences in the Promulgated Contracts.
(I've added paragraph breaks for ease of reading):
[PARAGRAPH BREAK] The Champions include CEOs of major companies, government ministers, and executives of research and intergovernmental institutions, foundations, farmer organizations, and civil society groups.
(The pictured book has the same problem as all of O'Reilly's Kindle editions that I've seen: it seems to force a

- style paragraph break instead of the Kindle norm: book - style, tab - indented paragraphs.
Here's an important tip for cutting and pasting your excerpt: Since your author webpage accepts HTML (to allow for colored fonts, image - insertions, etc.), you MUST identify paragraph breaks in your excerpt.
You can create paragraph breaks, bullet points, boldface, and italics through Author Central, for example.
Since there are less possibilities of error detection in these softwares, there are more chances of missing text, improper font size and awkward looking paragraph breaks in your final product.
I strongly prefer ePub files, but I've had so many big name publishers send me the crappiest PDF files that have chaotic paragraph breaks, repeated content, and disjointed headers that ruin the reading experience.
Fixes formatting and encoding of text files downloaded from the Internet by restoring proper paragraph breaks and getting rid of HTML markup and excessive space characters.
In an attempt to disown this public relations fiasco, in 2012 APS (presumably POPA) quietly introduced a new paragraph break in the 2007 Statement so as to alter the original intent of the passage.
Another common problem is not providing paragraph breaks.
- No HTML tags allowed - Web page and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically - Lines and paragraphs break automatically
However, I had been using paragraph breaks on the Internet, since it hates indents.
Your book designer will need to remove all of these extra paragraph breaks in order to format your book properly.
Trust me when I say that if your books aren't designed properly with paragraph breaks, indentations and the like, readers will stop reading.
The study authors also stressed the importance of collaboration and innovation in increasing senior pet lifesaving (paragraph breaks added to improve readabililty):
Asked pupils to think dramatically as well as analytically, to truly understand how paragraph breaks can affect the structure, pace and response to a piece of writing.
Nonfiction authors may opt for no indentation so long as paragraphs are separated by a full paragraph break.
Paragraph breaks instead of indents may have given the body text a lighter feel.
Use paragraph breaks and bulleted lists where appropriate to add structure and break up large blocks of text.
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