How do you write a topic sentence?

Answer 1

Your topic sentence is just your main idea. To write a strong topic sentence, you have to know what your point is going to be!

Write a list of all the different facts or sentences you can think of about your assignment, and choose the one that you find most interesting. Writing is always easiest when you write about something you like.

This will be your topic sentence. Check to be sure that you have used the correct grammar and punctuation. It should end up being a statement such as "WikiAnswers is an information website," or "Answering a question on WikiAnswers is simple."

A topic sentence makes a statement about a subject and the rest of the paragraph explains or gives examples of the topic sentence. A strong topic sentence should say something, make a point.

Now, if you mentally change your topic statement into a question, you can come up with a good "answer" from which you can create supporting sentences.

If your topic sentence is, "South Korea is a country in north east Asia", then readers would expect the rest of the paragraph to say some thing about South Korea. Maybe more about it's location, it's neighbours. So you could end up with a paragraph like this:

South Korea is a country in northeast Asia. It is located on the southern portion of the Korean peninsular. South Korea's neighbours are China to the west, Japan to the east and North Korea to the north. On the west side of the peninsular is the Yellow sea and on the east side is the Sea of Japan. The East China Sea and the Korean Strait are at the tip of the Korean peninsula.