The reading on developing paragraphs thankfully was very short. That was about the only good thing that the reading had going for it. The reading gave VERY general information on organizing paragraphs. For example the reading stated that in academic writing a paragraph is composed of five or more sentences. However, the very next sentences state that the paragraph can be shorter or longer than five. Why wouldn't they just say the paragraph can vary in length? The reading did stress the need for coherence in the paper, but I'm pretty sure everyone knows that they shouldn't wander off topic in their writing. The one thing I like about this reading (besides the fact that it was short) was that it touched on parallel structure in a paper, which I think is very important.