Week#4 - Revising Photo Descriptions, Topic Sentences, & Opinion Essay Brainstorm

Assignments

• Choose one of  your 'Get Acquainted' answers and revise it so that it follows the paragraph structure described on page 14.  Make the topic sentence bold.  If you'd like to start from scratch and write a new paragraph, feel free to do so.  Either way, increase the font size of that paragraph so that Jeff knows which one it is.
   
• Finish revising your photo descriptions by 6pm on Saturday, March 25
  Jeff will take another look at your essay and make comments by 6pm on Sunday March 26.
  
  (Optional) If there are still error comments that you don't know how to fix, submit a maximum of two to our 'What's the Problem?' Doc between 6pm March 26 and 6pm March 27.   Write the complete sentence that contains the error.  

Topic Sentences

• What is a topic sentence?
• How to write a topic sentence

Topic Sentence Exercises

• http://esl.fis.edu/learners/read/topic1.htm
• http://www.victoria.ac.nz/llc/llc_resources/academic-writing/tsent1.html
• http://www.uefap.com/writing/exercise/parag/paragex3.htm

Handout; Opinion Essay Brainstorm Questions and five paragraph essay structure

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How to Write a Thesis for Beginners