Constructing Effective Body Paragraphs A paragraph is a collection of related sentences dealing with a single topic. This handout breaks the paragraph down into its conceptual and structural ...

If you find writing topic sentences tricky, it might be helpful to prepare a bank of topic sentence stems or starters. For example, the first two topic sentences in a basic critical essay on the ...

Point – the topic sentence, which describes the focus (main point) of the paragraph Illustration – evidence and examples that reinforce the main point Explanation – evaluate the evidence in the ...

Constructing Effective Body Paragraphs This handout is available for download in DOCX format and PDF format. A paragraph is a collection of related sentences dealing with a single topic. This handout ...

a.question { text-decoration: underline !important; } Guided Practice Each of the paragraphs below contains three underlined sentences. Read each paragraph and then click on the sentence (or sentences ...

Writing a strong topic sentence that establishes the subject of the paragraph Using "echo words" -- i.e., consistent terms for the concepts throughout Applying transitions to link sentences logically ...

Here’s a paragraph about short sentences: Ideas about the building of paragraphs from sentences usually concern ‘topic sentences’ and the ordering of ‘subordinate ideas.’ ...