Paragraph Structure
This tells what a paragraph is about.
What is a topic sentence?
An argument is this type of sentence.
What is a question?
The trait of word choice.
What is using specific and descriptive words?
This restates the topic and summarizes the paragraph.
What is a closing sentence?
This answers the question in the argument and takes one side.
What is a claim?
The trait of ideas.
What is narrow down your topic, so that you can give it better detail?
This supports your topic sentence.
What is evidence or supporting details?
This describes evidence that comes from an expert.
What is sound?
The trait of organization.
What is putting information on the same topic together and leaving out anything that does NOT go with the topic?
This shows that you are moving from one topic to the next.
What are transitions?
This describes evidence that is related to the claim.
What is relevant?
The trait of sentence fluency
What is writing longer, more complex sentences?
This is how you show you are starting a new paragraph in your paper.
What is start on a new line and indent?
This tells us that there is enough evidence.
What is sufficient?
The trait of voice.
What is putting your personality and feelings towards the topic into your writing?