- One paragraph of descriptive writing on your hero. Remember: no names, no places, no nationalities...and you have only 5 sentences to finish the profile of your hero.
- Log in and leave both your Chinese name and your English name under "來者何人！？."
- Read and finish all exercises in: (a) "TOPIC VERSUS TOPIC SENTENCE," "Now Ask Yourself," and "EXERCISE1-1" (pp. 3-6); (b) "PARAGRAPH UNITY" and "Now Ask Yourself" (pp. 8-12).
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ReplyDelete3 points from page 3-6:
1.The first sentence of the paragraph is usually the topic sentence. But it can also be in the end or in the middle of the sentence.
2.Try to make a statement about your topic which limits it to a certain extent when writting a topic sentence.
3.Placing key words or phrases in the topic
sentence is a good way to limit one's topic.
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ReplyDelete3 points from page 8-12:
1.Besides the topic sentence, a paragraph includes several other sentences which in some way contribute to or sopport the idea in the topic sentence.
2.All the supporting sentences must be related to the topic and must therefore refer back to the topic sentence.
3.If a paragraph announces its main idea in the topic sentence, and if all the supporting sentences contribute to the reader's understanding of the main idea, it is a unified paragraph.