Benjamin Franklin-poor Richards Almanack
Charles Brockden Brown-Edgar Huntly
Thomas Paine -common sense
Washington Irving-The sketchbook of Geoffrey
1.moving from easily understood concepts..
2.a group of sentences that deal with one central..
3.an element between paragraphs..
4.may be pointed to..
5.two or more main clauses...
6.helps express...
7.paragraph staying with one...
8.arranged in order that events occured
I'm pretty sure the first sentence? Everything else sounds a tad opinionated.