ENGL 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Topic Sentence, Thesis Statement

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 1200
• Professor: Ajay Heble

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You need to know what you want to talk about in order to write an effective paragraph. Writing convention that allows us to convey your ideas. Topic sentence- key controlling idea (similar to thesis statement: once you have the top sentence, all other sentence in the paragraph will have to relate to that idea. If it does(cid:374)"t (cid:455)ou (cid:449)ould ha(cid:448)e to (cid:396)e(cid:449)(cid:396)ite (cid:455)ou(cid:396) topi(cid:272) se(cid:374)te(cid:374)(cid:272)e: specific, not state the obvious (follow same rule as thesis statement) Each paragraph will ideally state on idea and paragraph will stick to that idea. When writer starts to introduce another idea, you start a new paragraph. All details in the paragraph should contribute to one effect (topic sentence) Unity of purpose, method and style (try to avoid needless shift in tone, style) Relatio(cid:374)ships (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) ideas a(cid:396)e(cid:374)"t al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s (cid:272)lea(cid:396)l(cid:455) a(cid:396)ti(cid:272)ulated. Use quotation from the text to support your answer. How to get a-b-c- in your essay.