The
fully developed paragraph in the body of a competently written standard
student text likely includes transitional wording, statement of the topic of the
paragraph, details that support the point made in the topic sentence,
transitional wording that shows how each detail relates to what came before it,
citations where appropriate, and a concluding sentence that underscores the
point of the paragraph and relates it to the thesis of the text as a whole.
Contrast the one- to two-sentence paragraphs of email, Web pages, and journalistic texts.