Chapter 5: Maintaining Focus and Purpose: The Body Paragraphs
Chapter Overview
Learning Outcomes
In this chapter we will:
- Learn to draft body paragraphs that focus on specific point within our three-storey thesis and maintain a balance between claim, evidence, and warrant.
- Craft a topic sentence for each paragraph based on the textual evidence in our thesis.
- Create paragraphs that both say something new and build upon the points made in previous paragraphs.
- Create meaningful transitions between paragraphs.