The information mentioned in the text was taken from English Lessons with Alex (engVid AlexESLvid). May 19, 2009. Parts of a Paragraph - English Academic Writing Introduction.
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➽Examples of Topic Sentences
I saw around Velva a release from what was like slavery to the tyrannical soil, release from the ignorance that darkens the soul and from the loneliness that corrodes it. In this generation, my Velva friends have rejoined the general American society that their pioneering fathers left behind when they first made the barren trek in the days of the wheat rush. As I sit here in Washington writing this, I can feel their nearness. (from Eric Sevareid, "Velva, North Dakota")
·Topic Sentence: Many politicians
deplore the passing of the old family-sized farm, but I'm not so sure. is
correct.
·Explanation: Sevareid argues that
farming is destructive as a way of life, no matter what romantic notions are
attached to it. He is not writing about the productivity of farms, about his
own life story ("I grew up on a family-sized farm..."), and his main
point is not that people moved away from the cities in the late nineteenth
century.
The first is the wear-and-tear hypothesis that suggests the body eventually succumbs to the environmental insults of life. The second is the notion that we have an internal clock that is genetically programmed to run down. Supporters of the wear-and-tear theory maintain that the very practice of breathing causes us to age because inhaled oxygen produces toxic by-products. Advocates of the internal clock theory believe that individual cells are told to stop dividing and thus eventually to die by, for example, hormones produced by the brain or by their own genes. (from Debra Blank, "The Eternal Quest" [edited]).
·Topic Sentence: There are two broad
theories concerning what triggers a human's inevitable decline to death. is
correct.
·Explanation: This paragraph is a
straightforward description of two possibilities, neither of which is preferred
over the other. In this case, it would be wrong to mention only one of the
possibilities (the "internal time clock") in the topic sentence, or
to treat it as a philosophical discussion of death itself ("we all must
die..."). As for the biology professor, He or she might very well have
given an interesting lecture, but that has nothing to do with the content of
the paragraph.
The strictest military discipline imaginable is still looser than that prevailing in the average assembly-line. The soldier, at worst, is still able to exercise the highest conceivable functions of freedom -- that is, he or she is permitted to steal and to kill. No discipline prevailing in peace gives him or her anything remotely resembling this. The soldier is, in war, in the position of a free adult; in peace, he or she is almost always in the position of a child. In war, all things are excused by success, even violations of discipline. In peace, speaking generally, success is inconceivable except as a function of discipline. (from H.L. Mencken, "Reflections on War" [edited]).
·Topic Sentence: We commonly look at
the discipline of war as vastly more rigid than any discipline necessary in
time of peace, but this is an error. is correct.
·Explanation: The topic sentence must
emphasize the comparative nature of the paragraph. Mencken does argue that
soldiers need discipline, but this is not all he argues in this paragraph.
Likewise, while soldiers may well serve an important function in wartime, and
while they may well be able to compete well in peacetime, neither of these
points is discussed in the paragraph.
↬The following presentation shows information about the importance of Topic Sentences and Paragraphs in the realization of a text ↫
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