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Lesson
three: Topic Sentences
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Each
body paragraph of your paper builds towards proving one
particular aspect of your thesis, and each of these aspects
should be crystallized into a strong topic sentence.
If
your paper is quite short, these sentences might represent the
main points you mentioned in the blueprint part of your thesis,
but they might each be more specific aspects of one of those
points, particularly if your paper is longer.
Defining
your topics - First and foremost, a topic
sentence is a piece of analysis, NOT summary.
Think of it in a similar manner to how you thought of your
thesis; in other words, an original interpretation based upon
the textual evidence of your source. The first of the
following examples illustrates a statement of fact, rather
than an argumentative topic sentence.
Weak
Topic Sentence: "Book
Five of Paradise Lost
concentrates on the conversation
between Adam and the archangel
Raphael.”
Strong
Topic Sentence:
"Throughout Book Five, Milton
utilizes images of gardening and
nourishment to convey man's maturing
relationship to the divine."
Relationship
of topics to thesis -
Your topic statements should each provide a solid area of
analysis by which your thesis is true. They should, however,
be more specific than a mere restatement of part of it.
Thesis:
"In Journey Through the Twelve
Forests, David Haberman apprehends
the Ban-Yatra pilgrimage as a
realization of the god Krishna's
omnipresence, through separate realizations
of the journey's cyclical nature,
the externalization of the divine,
and the relationship between asceticism
and pleasure."
Topic
Sentence for Second
Paragraph: "Throughout the narrative,
the physical relationship of the
pilgrim to the natural landscape
of Braj, as well as worshipped
images of Krishna and other deities,
reflects the presence of Krishna
as an interactive externality, rather
than the occupant of an inaccessible
sphere."
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