Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
1. topic sentence
2. supporting sentences
3. concluding sentence(s)
● An effective paragraph must be:
1. unified
2. coherent
3. adequately developed
Unity
To make a paragraph unified, we should have
only one main idea.
Other supporting ideas must relate to and
directly explain the main idea.
The main idea is expressed in the topic
sentence.
The position of the topic sentence in the
paragraph: beginning, end, beginning and
end, middle, and implied.
Writing a topic sentence (1)
A topic sentence is a sentence.
It has a topic and a controlling idea.