Each paragraph of text is usually in its own Paragraph element.
So you'll usually have severals Paragraphs. You can give individual words or phrases added emphasis, which usually means italicization, or you can make them more bold.
You might want a line break within a Paragraph, without starting a whole new paragraph, like right here...
and you might want a horizontal line between objects in the document, like here:
It's traditional practice to put some contact info for the author somewhere, so readers can give feedback.
Here is how you might do that: Christopher Dobrian dobrian@uci.edu