ENGL 135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Topic Sentence, Sharpening, Brainstorming
31 Oct 2018
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Has a thesis, intro, body paragraphs and a conclusion (answer to the guiding question) Topic sentence (main idea) at the beginning of each paragraph. Path statement: listing out the main subtopic of your essay. Quotes and evidence or facts/statistics or interpretations. Examples: 7. 6 billion people in the world (fact) there are too many people in my econ class (opinion, mushrooms are full of good vitamins (fact) mushrooms are gross (opinion) Reader-based vs writer-based prose - things i have to say, just ideas on paper maybe a rough draft vs thinking about the reader and imagining a friend or a version of yourself who needs very lucid and persuasive points. Leading them step by step through your argument a clear hierarchy if ideas. The sources of information available to you. Thesis and topic sentences and main supporting ideas. Who needs to be convinced or what does the audience know or not know.
