This Paragraph Will Make You Smarter 1

There is a danger to copy-editing. You start to read in a different way. You start to see the sentence as machinery. You focus on the gears and levers that connect words to one another; you hunt for the wayward semicolon, the unintentionally ambiguous phrase, the clunky repeated word. You even hope they appear, so you can kill them. You see them when they’re not even there, because you relish slashing your pen across the paper. It gets a little twisted.

-Yuka Igarashi in "House Style:  Editing Brazil."

Here's a classic deductive paragraph that begins with a topic sentence that states a generalization.  The rest of the paragraph then supports the generalization with specific, showing examples.  The examples are organized by anaphora, and sentence 4 features anaphora within anaphora.  It's also a textbook example of sentence variety, beginning with a short sentence and ending with an even more concise one.