Keep your central idea in mind when writing a thesis statement/ sentence. You should write out the major topics that support you argument (expressing them in the thesis). You can always go back and change your thesis (which is why some people write this last), as it is the most important, and connects all the parts of an essay together. Many times the thesis is placed at the end of the first paragraph (or introduction), where it alerts readers of your essay's structure.As you write, you need to support the points of your thesis. Use a topic sentence at the beginning of each paragraph, a topic sentence connects your thesis with the paragraph, showing how the paragraph relates to a central idea.
This seems like a lot of work. Why do you have to write a topic sentence and cover a whole idea in the paragraph, doesn't that make for a very lengthy paragraph, and an unthorough covering of the topic/idea? Wouldn't it be better to break up the paragraph into smaller, less unsightly pieces, that draw the reader's attention and keeps it? I've found that long paragraphs tend to turn off readers (myself being one), and then they don't pay as close attention and may miss your point entirely. I think that you should have one topic sentence for a series of small paragraphs, leading to satisfied (and actually attentive/awake) readers, and a more thoroughly covered idea (which is very important in my opinion). I'm not so sure about following this article's suggestions, I just hope we don't have to do these things for class. Talk about boring.
It doesn't mean a very detailed paragraph, but instead it means so that you keep different thoughts in different paragraphs. Thanks!
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