Chapter 7: Writing Great Paragraphs
Key Takeaways
- A clear paragraph provides your audience with an appropriate amount of information and is structured so that the reader can see the connection between ideas.
- The topic sentence expresses the main idea of the paragraph combined with the writer’s attitude or opinion about the topic.
- Supporting sentences help explain, prove, or enhance the topic sentence by offering facts, reasons, statistics, quotations, or examples.
- Concluding sentences summarize the key points in a paragraph and reiterate the main idea without repeating it word for word.
- You can use transitional words to help the reader see the connection between ideas and between paragraphs
- A summary concisely restates the main ideas of a source in the writer’s own words.
