<p>

Paragraph

The basic block-unit of textual information

Remarks

This element does not have to be a well-formed paragraph as defined in high school English class, i.e., “a block of text representing a single idea, typographically differentiated from its neighbors”. Rather, the element <p> is a block (as opposed to inline) structural unit which may be only a few words in length.

Attributes

align Horizontal Alignment (XHTML table model)
id Identifier
xml:lang Language Code

Expanded Content Model

(#PCDATA | ext-link | related-article | inline-supplementary-material | address | alternatives | array | graphic | preformat | disp-formula | mixed-citation | bold | italic | monospace | overline | roman | sans-serif | sc | strike | underline | inline-graphic | def-list | list | mml:math | disp-quote | speech | statement | verse-group | target | xref | sub | sup)*

Description

Any combination of:

Example 1

...
<volume>45</volume>
<issue>3</issue>
<fpage>281</fpage>
<lpage>297</lpage>
<permissions copyright-status="active">
<copyright-statement>Copyright 2008 by the American Psychological Association</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2008</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>American Psychological Association</copyright-holder>
</permissions>
<abstract xml:lang="en">
<p align="left">The authors examined immediacy (i.e., discussions
about the here-and-now therapeutic relationship) in a 12-session case of individual interpersonal psychotherapy. Therapist immediacy during immediacy events most often focused on parallels between external relationships and the therapy relationship, encouraging expression of immediate feelings, processing termination, therapist expressing disappointment/sadness/hurt and inquiring about the client's reactions. Client involvement was slightly higher before and after than during immediacy events. On the positive side, therapist immediacy seemed to help the client express her immediate feelings about the therapist more openly, feel closer to the therapist, and become less defended. On the negative side, the client felt somewhat awkward and pressured when the therapist used immediacy. Limitations and implications for practice and research are discussed.
</p></abstract>
<kwd-group xml:lang="en">
<kwd>immediacy</kwd>
<kwd>therapeutic relationship</kwd>
<kwd>psychotherapy process</kwd>
</kwd-group>...

Example 2

<article structure-type="article" dtd-version="0.1"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<front>...</front>
<body>
<sec id="s1">
<p align="left">Therapist immediacy, which we defined
as disclosures within ...</p>
...
</sec>
<sec id="s2">
<title>Empirical Studies Related to Therapist
Immediacy</title>
<p align="left">A few studies have been conducted that
point to the effectiveness of immediacy ...</p>
...
</sec>
...
</body>
...
</article>

Module

para3.ent