Paragraph Development

The most important part of a paragraph is its main sentence(s) that has the topic of that paragraph's central idea.

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The topic sentence grabs a readers attention.

it supports the thesis--------APEX

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I won't do your homework ,but summarize everything in the essay in 3-4 sentences. The closing sentence should have a very powerful impact

A PEE paragraph is one with the following format:

Point - state your point (your main idea or topic) plainly and simply.

Evidence - state the evidence which supports that point. Use facts and details that you have looked up.

Explanation - explain each of your facts in more detail. Give examples, personal stories, or just write the information in other words.

The rains in Oklahoma fall hard, often coming down sideways or in the form of mud due to chronic strong winds. One particular rain I remember occurred when I was a member of Third Corp, stationed at Ft. Sill, north of Lawton. One of the Sergeants Major from our unit was retiring, and we were preparing his retirement party at the NCO club on post. We had finished setting up and realized that we had forgotten the flag that was to be given to him from our unit as a gift. I and a fellow soldier rushed back to the unit across post to retrieve it when it began to rain. At first, the rain was just those big, pregnant drops that sometimes fall from a clear summer sky, but it quickly transformed into a raging monsoon. Driving in the military jeep, neither of us could see twenty feet in front of us. Not being the driver, I was forced to exit the jeep and walk immediately in front, waiving a flashlight and tapping the hood to signal the driver to advance. The water rose so fast in the road, that within minutes it was washing over the tops of my boots, leaving me drenched. What was normally a five minute ride took nearly thirty to complete.

I'm not sure what you mean by "quotes," but here are two possible answers. # You do not need to put your paragraph inside quotation marks unless it is not your paragraph. If you have copied a paragraph that someone else wrote, then you do put quotes around it, and also tell who wrote it. # If you would like to end your paragraph with a short quote by someone else, you certainly can do that. If you have found a quote that exactly sums up what you wanted to say, you can conclude by writing "X said, 'Y,'" or "As X said, 'Y'" - X would be the name of the author and Y would be whatever they said. As Heather Armstrong said, "Keep writing."

No, usually it is considered good practice to keep a paragraph limited to one topic and start a new paragraph when the topic changes. (There are, of course, exceptions, such as a paragraph that sets two different topics in relation, but several topics in a single paragraph is often a sign of sloppy writing and rarely a prerequisite for a good paragraph.)

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Make sure that they support the topic sentence! One way to check this is to mentally change the topic or main idea into a question - then, just be sure that each sentence in your paragraph answers that question somehow!

When you are composing your paragraph, the best way is to make a list of every fact about the topic. Look up information if you need to! Use lots of detail and make the sentences easy to understand. In this way, you can be sure that each of your sentences will support the topic instead of changing the subject.

To make your supporting sentences more vivid and interesting, add description and detail. Click on the Related Questions to see how to make "word pictures" when you write.

Run on sentences occur when someone has a variety of ideas and instead of putting them in discrete sentences, uses commas and semi colons and such to just keep going which can be very disconcerting for the reader even when words like "which" and "even" and "however" are used to try to link all those disparate things together; which in the end, does nothing to give the sentence any great clarity or to make it easier to read.

Ex: The old lady just bought a new house and planted a bunch of new flowers in her front yard the flowers were daisys.

Yes, the clincher sentence is the summary of the whole paragraph and the last sentence. You are supposed to indent the clincher sentence. You can use signal words too in your paragraph and clincher sentence. As clincher sentence comes at the end, there is a topic sentence which comes at the beginning.

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Usually you will add more Paragraphs(4 or 5 more) to the mix and make sure at the start there is an "opening paragraph" and at the end a "conclusion". Additionally, you should make sure that the paragraph flows.

Yes in a paragraph you have one main topic and have at least 3 supporting/relating statements to that topic Yes in a paragraph you have one main topic and have at least 3 supporting/relating statements to that topic

1 paragraph with a lot of facts.

Which of the following are ways you can hook your reader?

I. Begin with a story or a personal experience

II. Lead with a quotation

III. Start with a question or a statistic

A.I, II, and III<----------- Apex

Because my cousins got tired of working 16 hours a day on the farm, and heard that factory jobs in the city only required 10 hours per day, and paid regardless of drought, hail, gluts of the market, and so on. Besides, all the local girls were already relatives, and the pickings had gotten pretty slim from neighboring counties, most of whose families were in a feud with us.

WikiAnswers will not write your introduction for you, but we WILL help you learn how to do it yourself! Click on the related link to learn more about topic sentences.

You need to decide what is the most interesting point of this assignment for you, because writing is easiest if you write about something you find interesting! Nobody else can give you a "good topic" because our ideas will not be interesting to you. Pick the thing that you think is most interesting or most important, and make that the topic.

If you just start writing, you will be through with your assignment before you know it!

Usually the topic sentence is the first sentence in a paragraph. The topic sentence makes a statement about some topic and the rest of the paragraph explains the topic sentence or gives examples of the topic sentence.

For example if this was the topic sentence

There are three living species of Kiwi all of which inhabit New Zealand.

Then this paragraph would probably tell us what the three species are and where they live in NZ.

Any sentence that does not contribute to your main point(s) does not belong in your paragraph (or anywhere in your essay).

The role of the supporting sentence that makes up the body of classification and division paragraphs is to explain how to classify the objects introduced in the topic sentence into smaller groups, or they list the parts of the item introduced in the topic sentence.

i belive that you can it just depends on what your wrighting. A creative paragraph is easy tro start with if but say a paraghraph on animals is another story. EX: If you were to walk into the vast plains of north africa and see these wild creaturs sudch as a lion or zebra....

A good paragraph should have one main thesis sentence. All sentences should pertain to that one thought. All sentences should be complete. The paragraph should convey one main point.