Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
• 8 Steps of • Reviewing
• Drafting • Publishing
• Conferencing
• Editing
Task 4 Keys
Ahem, did you do it?
Part Two - From
Paragraph to Essays
Thesis statements & Topic sentences
Activity #1
Thesis Statement
• Shows:
• Content of body
paragraphs
• IMPORTANT:
• Argument
(interesting) VS
Fact (boring)
“Tell me something I don’t know!”
Smoking can cause health problems.
Smoking should be listed as a crime.
(Well, someone must not agree...)
Small cars get better fuel mileage than 4 x 4
pickup trucks.
• We find information
faster through the
Internet.
• Violent Sports
• Specific: what sport?
• Controlling idea:
what to do to this
sport?
Example