A one-sentence paragraph?

Here is a paragraph from an essay:

Spending billions of dollars on a Mars expedition is counterproductive; it is something we cannot afford, especially because we have more urgent problems to tackle.

Here is another paragraph:

Moreover, because the benefits of a Mars mission both vague and undefined, it is important to consider whether the risks of such a mission are worth really taking.”

The problem is that a one- or two-sentence paragraph is not possible. A one-sentence paragraph is simply not enough to develop an idea fully. A Short Guide to College Writing gives students excellent advice about paragraph length: “Although a paragraph can contain any number of sentences, two is probably too few, and ten might be too many.”

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