Thesis Statement, Topic Sentence, Supporting Details

• Thesis Statement

  The central idea of a multiple paragraph composition

  A one sentence summary that guides, controls, and unifies ideas

  Other ideas present in an essay revolves around the thesis statement
• Topic sentence

  Guides, controls, and unifies ideas in a paragraph

  Developes one arguement of the thesis statement
• Types of topic sentence

  implied topic sentence

  explicetly stated topic sentence
• Explicitly stated topic statement

  can be placed in 4 different locations: beginning, middle, or start and end of a paragraph
• implied topic sentence

  indirectly seen in the paragraph
• Supporting details

  details necessary to understand the main idea
• Supporting details can be expressed by...

  facts, reasons, testimonies, stats, and experiments that support the main idea
• Types of supporting details

  major and minor
• Major supporting details

  directly supports the main topic
• Minor details

  directly supports the major topic