Monday, October 6, 2008

Topic Sentences and Paragraph Structure




Topic Sentences and Paragraph Structure
420W
English Language Institute


Topic Sentences

In the following exercise, you must choose the best topic sentence. After you have chosen a topic sentence for each paragraph, click on “submit” to check your answers.

Go to: http://www.laflemm.com/dynamic/online_practice.php?practice_id=19

In the following exercise, click on the topic sentence in each the paragraph.

Go to: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/llc/academic-writing/tsent1.html

In this exercise, you must choose the best topic sentence.

Go to: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/llc/academic-writing/tsent2.html

In this exercise, you must write a topic sentence for each paragraph. After you are finished, click on “suggested answer”. Is your sentence very different? Write it down in your notebook and we can discuss it in class.

Go to: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/llc/academic-writing/tsent3.html

Here is another exercise where you must write a topic sentence for each paragraph. After you are finished, click on “check answer”.

Go to: http://www1.aucegypt.edu/academic/writers/practice/practice_topic_sentences.htm

Logical Order of Sentences in a Paragraph

In this exercise, the sentences in each paragraph are not in a logical order. You must arrange the sentences so that they are in a logical order. When you click on a sentence it will appear in a box at the top of your screen. After you have tried to put all the sentences in a logical order, click on “check”. When you are finished the first paragraph, click on “next paragraph”.

Go to: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/llc/academic-writing/pbuild1.html

Relevance

In this exercise, you must eliminate sentences that are not connected to the topic of the paragraph.

Go to: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/llc/academic-writing/pbuild4.html

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