What are some techniques to achieve unity

Unity Definition and Purpose

The United States is the birthplace of basketball and recruits the best players in the world to the NBA. So everyone expects the U.S. National Basketball Team to be the best. After the 1992 Dream Team dominated the Olympics, winning by an average of 40 points each game, U.S. basketball seemed invincible.

But in 2004, the U.S. National team lost its opening Olympic game by 19 points. Americans were stunned. How could a team composed of all NBA players lose to a team that only had two players from the NBA? The answer was simple - the players were individual stars who did not work together as a team. Without unity among the players, they couldn't work together to be successful. Individual talent is not enough to compensate for a lack of unity in a team sport.

The same concept of unity applies to our writing as well. Without a unified document, our message is lost. Unity in writing refers to the focus of ideas in sentences and paragraphs that work together to make the document easy to understand. This means that each sentence in a paragraph must be focused on the same topic, and each paragraph must be focused on the same message in order to create consistency.

Unity helps the audience more easily follow the progression of ideas in a document. In school, we're taught that each paragraph will focus on one idea, so as readers, we expect and look for that format when we're reading a document. We know that when a new paragraph begins, we can expect a new topic. Since this is the expectation of our readers, as writers, we must adhere to these guidelines in order to create unity and understanding for our reader.

Unity in writing can be achieved by keeping each paragraph focused on one topic, by keeping all paragraphs focused on one thesis, and by using a similar structure in all aspects of our writing.