Topic Sentence and Informal Outline Sean Heffernan GEN/195 March 06‚ 2012 John Borio Topic Sentence and Informal Outline It is essential to know how to write a topic sentence properly. A topic sentence conveys the main sentence of a paragraph and describes the content of the paragraph. An informal outline consists of the major and minor ideas reviewed or discussed within the literature. An informal outline organizes thoughts yet stays away from repetition. Informal Outline Although
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David Best Descriptive Paragraph Hunting has been a favorite and exciting hobby of mine all my life‚ and the excitement never seems to fade away. I hunt for turkey‚ duck‚ coyote‚ deer‚ hogs‚ and othersmall game animals. Out of everything I hunt‚ ducks would have to be at the top of the list. Every opening weekend of duck season‚ my closest friends and cousins ‚ come camping with my dad and I at the Altamaha River outside of a small town called Uvalda. I have looked forward to this weekend
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Marigolds Paragraph Most of the time‚ there’s a moment in life where one realizes that they have lost their innocence and gained compassion in the absence. “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier shows how one young girl changed from a child to a young adult through her life experiences. Lizabeth is a 14 year old girl living in poverty with her parents‚ her 11 year old brother Joey‚ Miss Lottie and her son‚ and the neighborhood kids. As the leader of her group of friends‚ Lizabeth takes part in throwing
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Short Paragraphs 1. Moon The Moon is a barren‚ rocky world without air and water. It has dark lava plain on its surface. The Moon is filled wit craters. It has no light of its own. It gets its light from the Sun. The Moo keeps changing its shape as it moves round the Earth. It spins on its axis in 27.3 days stars were named after the Edwin Aldrin were the first ones to set their foot on the Moon on 21 July 1969 They reached the Moon in their space craft named Apollo II. 2. Sun The sun is a huge
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Introduction The Roanoke branch of Phoenix Advertising has been one of the company’s most successful branches in previous years‚ handling the company’s largest accounts and maintaining a strong human resource pool. However‚ recent observable difficulties have brought the branches’ current human resource practices into question‚ as reports of key personnel leaving or threatening to leave their jobs‚ sharp declines in productivity‚ and loss of employee morale reach the company’s headquarters. Under
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A Process Paragraph A process is a series‚ a sequence‚ an orderly progression. One step or event follows another: first this‚ then that‚ then something else. You generally write a process paragraph to accomplish one of two tasks: 1. To describe how to make or do something (directional process) 2. To describe how something works (informational process) The Structure of a Process Paragraph 1. The topic sentence names the process and indicates the reason someone should be interested in knowing about
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carefully selected details. Each of the five paragraphs below responds‚ in its own way‚ to the guidelines in How to Write a Descriptive Paragraph. The writers (three of them students‚ two of them professional authors) have selected a belonging or a place that holds special meaning to them‚ identified that subject in a clear topic sentence‚ and then described it in detail while explaining its personal significance. In the following paragraph‚ observe how the writer moves clearly from a description
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LANGUAGE ESSAY: INFORMAL/FORMAL ENGLISH Here is your goal for this assignment: * Produce writing that illustrates your understanding of formal and informal English You will be writing two separate paragraphs. The first paragraph‚ on any subject of your choice‚ will be written in informal English. Informal English is conversational in tone. There should be no grammatical or spelling errors in this paragraph‚ so be sure to proofread your work carefully. The second paragraph will be on the identical
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Illustration Paragraph Final Template Step 5: Illustration Paragraph Final Draft Directions: Turn off the “Track Changes” feature. Copy and paste your edited draft. Select the entire paragraph and choose “Accept Changes” if the document does not automatically make the changes for you. Save the changes to this document; save it as “Illustration Paragraph Assignment.” Then use the link provided in Blackboard to submit the document to your instructor. The instructor should then be able to see the
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including a person becoming a danger to themselves or others‚ though not all such acts are considered insanity. In modern usage insanity is most commonly encountered as an informal unscientific term denoting mental instability‚ or in the narrow legal context of the insanity defense. In the derivation of the word insanity lies its definition. In English‚ the word sane derives from the Latin adjective sanus meaning healthy. The word insanity was first used in the 1550s. Naturally the word insane means unhealthy
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