Strategy for Developing Topic Sentences & Relevant Evidence
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Developing Topic Sentences and Finding Relevant Evidence:
Explanation: This exercise teaches students to develop strong topic sentences for essay body paragraphs and to find appropriate evidence to support their topic sentences.
Instructions:
Example:
Topic Sentence: People achieve more long-term happiness when they spend their money on experiences instead of material objects.
Evidence: In his article “The Happiness of Pursuit,” Jeffrey Kluger explains why vacations make people happier than new things: “Your shoes are not unique; your TV’s not unique. Your vacation to Rome or your family camping trip, however, are much more particularly yours since nobody else in the world did exactly the same things or shared them with exactly the same people you did. And far from wearing out, the memories of the experience grow richer over time” (6).
Topic Sentence:
Evidence:
Explanation: This exercise teaches students to develop strong topic sentences for essay body paragraphs and to find appropriate evidence to support their topic sentences.
Instructions:
- Develop a topic sentence that introduces a topic and a claim about it. Use the main ideas in the article as sources.
- Find a quote in the article that supports your topic sentence. Create an attribution sentence for your quote.
Example:
Topic Sentence: People achieve more long-term happiness when they spend their money on experiences instead of material objects.
Evidence: In his article “The Happiness of Pursuit,” Jeffrey Kluger explains why vacations make people happier than new things: “Your shoes are not unique; your TV’s not unique. Your vacation to Rome or your family camping trip, however, are much more particularly yours since nobody else in the world did exactly the same things or shared them with exactly the same people you did. And far from wearing out, the memories of the experience grow richer over time” (6).
Topic Sentence:
Evidence: