| As a group, the class evaluated each topic sentence to define qualities of a good topic sentence, and possible strategies for writing them. |
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| Can you identify a clear topic sentence that acts as the paragraph's thesis statement? |
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| We were to underline the thesis in the first paragraph and put brackets around the topic sentence of each body paragraph. |
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| An AP story uses a disjunction of relevance in a slightly different way, to weaken a topic sentence. |
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| My interpretation of the primary sources is written in short paragraphs organized around a topic sentence. |
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| Skilled practitioners can demonstrate the power of facts, and provide models — topic sentence by topic sentence — for compelling narrative. |
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| What children need most from parents are not rules of grammar or how to write a topic sentence for a school essay, but simple encouragement to write and write often. |
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| A good practice is to use a variation of your topic sentence for your concluding sentence. |
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| A topic sentence answers that question by summarizing the point that you are about to convey. |
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| The experiment showed that position and meta-discourse features were important in extracting the topic sentence. |
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| People talk for hours without uttering a single topic sentence. |
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| Think of it like you would the topic sentence of an article or story. |
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| For those who find it particularly difficult to make the jump from sentence to cohesive paragraph writing, the topic sentence is the first mountain to climb. |
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