Writing a good paragraph write a paragraph. include all your work from steps one through five below for your teacher to see. 1. first, choose the topic that you wish to develop. select a topic that is suitable and narrow enough for a one-paragraph development. topic: 2. second, list and number the ideas you will use to support and develop the main idea. supporting ideas: 1. 2. 3. 3. third, arrange and re-number the supporting and developing ideas in the most logical order. state the method which you are using to develop the main idea. rearrangement of supporting ideas: 1. 2. 3. method of arrangement: 4. fourth, state the topic sentence, and write a good clinching sentence. topic sentence: clinching sentence: 5. now, finally, write a coherent, unified paragraph based on steps one through four. paragraph: