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No, a thesis statement is a sentence that presents the main idea or argument of an essay, while a topic sentence is a sentence that introduces the main idea of a paragraph. The thesis statement usually appears in the introduction of an essay and guides the entire paper, while topic sentences are more specific and focus on individual paragraphs.
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This is usually the closing sentence.
No, a thesis statement and the statement of a paper's topic is not the same thing. A thesis statement has to state the thesis or argument that you as the writer are making in the paper. So, the thesis statement has to tell your reader what you are trying to argue or prove in your paper. To take a very simple example, if you have a paper and the topic of that paper is: What is the colour of the sky? your thesis statement would be "The colour of the sky is blue" because that would most likely be the argument you are going to make in your paper in response to the topic of the paper.
NEVER restate your thesis; don't even rephrase it. You should state the universal truth or general idea of the essay--you're saying it's the same thing as the thesis, right? Wrong. It is the idea you are trying to reach to your readers. Wrap up your essay while providing readers with a connection to their own lives or society. Suggest broader implications of the topic (universal truth/general idea). Filter down your topic and clarify the meaning to clear any misconceptions. That is a better answer.
A topic sentence can be the hook sentence, but it does not need to be. Typically, writers want to try to hook their audience in the first or very early sentences of the work. The topic sentence typically follows later in the opening paragraph. Some professional writers do not follow this format, however. Some writers artfully place their topic sentence later in the work, building interest and informing before "cutting to the chase."
There is no single best topic: if everybody wrote a thesis on the same subject, it probably won't be accepted. The idea is for different people to write about different topics.
When two complete sentences are in one complete paragraph; does that mean each sentence is a SEPARATE topic? Or is each separate sentence part of the SAME topic?
Yes, a topic tells about what you are writing about. and a subject is an synonym of "topic"
Always remember to restate your thesis. Rephrase the thesis so that it isn't the same thing.
Yes, essentially they are the same.
From http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/fwalters/cohere.html "Unity is a very important characteristic of good paragraph writing. Paragraph unity means that one paragraph is about ONLY ONE main topic. That is, all the sentences -- the topic, supporting sentences, the detail sentences, and (sometimes) the concluding sentence -- are all telling the reader about ONE main topic. If your paragraph contains a sentence or some sentences that are NOT related to the main topic, then we say that the paragraph "lacks unity," or that the sentence is "off-topic." " In general, it means that your paper is coherent, easy to follow, and each paragraph relates to the main thesis. "To help your paragraph unity try these things:From: http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/comp1/coherent.htm"To achieve paragraph unity, a writer must ensure two things only. First, the paragraph must have a single generalization that serves as the focus of attention, that is, a topic sentence. Secondly, a writer must control the content of every other sentence in the paragraph's body such that (a) it contains more specific information than the topic sentence and (b) it maintains the same focus of attention as the topic sentence. "