I am working under the belief that the topic sentence defines the paragraph and all subsequent sentences are supporting details of the topic sentence.
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And the books aren't content with this : they then present paragraphs for each of which the poor student has to identify the topic sentence.
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To repeat the topic sentence : " I find often in AFDs people are misusing " Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information ".
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:: : : For example, in a McGraw-Hill textbook, editors will check to make sure that every paragraph has a " simple " topic sentence.
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Believing that you must exhaust the topic in your topic sentence, you might write a page-long paragraph about the sales drop in the northeast quadrant.
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Also, the title of each section and subsection may sometimes serve as a topic sentence . talk ) 00 : 33, 25 September 2012 ( UTC)
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One suggestion though : introduce complex paragraphs with a topic sentence, as in this diff .-- talk ) 16 : 37, 10 October 2008 ( UTC)
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For the next sentence, " The first 72 hours saw a battering of the German Sixth Army, with 16 battalions destroyed, " is the topic sentence.
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Could you combine the Japanese and English publication histories ? " ( "'Topic sentence "': the episodes appear in both Japanese and English editions . )"
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A narrative story-telling document or a functional " how-to " memo that describes how to take an action may actually be confused by a topic sentence.
