WRIT 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Discourse Community, Nominalization
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5:42 pm: paragraphs, controlling ideas, topic sentences. Unified and related to a single controlling idea (topic sentence) Clearly related to the thesis (central idea = thesis) Coherent: logically arranged, following a plan for development. Well-developed: adequately explained and supported thru evidence: paragraph development - another handout. Step by step process: read like a writer. Underline the topic sentence of each body paragraph. Summarize the controlling idea of each paragraph in the margins. Check to see how well each paragraph relates to the thesis of the paper: discourse communities. Common features of academic writing - johns article: discourse community actions. Check how well topic sentences align with the controling idea of the paragraph. Transitional words, phrases, and sentences should be circled. The main characters or doers should be the subject of the sentence. Verbs should express specific actions (rely on verbs to express key actions)
