You do something for long enough and you don’t remember how you learned to do it in the first place.
That’s how it is with paragraph structure. I’ll be teaching it this week to the sixth grade and I have to re-learn how to break it down, from the claim and the context to the evidence and the analysis.
This is going to be hard because writing, in general, is hard. I heard that last week when I was doing some research on the Writing Revolution, and it was a very helpful reminder.
Writing is hard and the only way to understand the process is to learn how to break down the steps and identify the parts that make it up.