Topic Sentence

• Topic Sentence guides, controls, and unifies ideas in a paragraph.
• It develops one argument of the thesis statement
• It can either be explicitly or implicitly stated
• An explicitly stated topic sentence can be placed in four different locations: at the beginning, at the middle, and at the end
• An implied topic sentence is not directly seen in the paragraph
• the topic sentence develops the details in the thesis statement
• Tips in Writing an Effective Topic Sentence:

  1. It should follow the basic already discussed in the thesis statement. It should be written in a complete sentence with a clearly stated subject and It should not be phrased awkwardly
  2. It should contain one detail which is related to one of the details in the thesis statement.
  3. It should vary in structure across paragraphs.
  4. If the composition is just one paragraph, the topic sentence should be straightforward.