Five Steps to Better Paragraphs

Definitions are often compromises between what the definer thinks and what they think they should think. They may often feel obliged to conform to a mythical community standard. They also reflect the times in which they are written. Many Victorian works of art, for example, were once considered pornographic.

How would you improve it?

Step One: Structure

Step Two: Academic style

Step Three: Supporting evidence

Step Four: Evidence against

Step Five: Referencing & citation

Now compare the original to the rewritten version