- With over 100 Writing Exercises. Sentence and Paragraph Writing is a pre-intermediate/intermediate level writing textbook geared to the needs of high school and university students. While some students enter university with good basic writing skills, the authors of this textbook recognize that most students need refreshment of their knowledge of basic and varied sentence structure, spelling rules, punctuation and capitalization, article usage, verb tenses, subject-verb agreement and paragraph development. Sentence and Paragraph Writing takes students from basic sentence writing skills at the beginning to sound and competent paragraph writing at the end. It is designed to be an intensive one-semester course. Students who complete this text will then have the skills needed for a more advanced English composition and essay writing course.