You remember the Topic Sentence — when you were an impressionable young scribble-ninja, your schoolteachers pounded it into you.

Here’s a paragraph about short sentences: Ideas about the building of paragraphs from sentences usually concern ‘topic sentences’ and the ordering of ‘subordinate ideas.’ ...

Constructing Effective Body Paragraphs A paragraph is a collection of related sentences dealing with a single topic. This handout breaks the paragraph down into its conceptual and structural ...

Study Tips: When writing remember the whole paragraph needs to focus on the main idea stated in your topic sentence. The remaining sentences in the paragraph support and develop the idea with ...

Topic sentences and transitions act as "sign posts" that keep your reader from getting lost or having to backtrack through your ideas. One way to determine if your ideas are moving logically and can ...

Each of the paragraphs below contains three underlined sentences. Read each paragraph and then click on the sentence (or sentences) that you think is the topic sentence of that paragraph. Carpeting ...

Constructing Effective Body Paragraphs This handout is available for download in DOCX format and PDF format. A paragraph is a collection of related sentences dealing with a single topic. This handout ...