Portfolio 4 - Parts of the paragraph

Parts of the paragraph

.Topic sentence -What is the subject?
                             -Interesting topic
                             -Giving an opinion on it
                             -Not overly detailed

.Body –Supporting details for the argument
           -Order details according importance (stronger points first) or a chronological order

Closing sentence- Restate the topic sentence in a different way
                              - Keep the audience thinking

LLearn english with alex / (2009 may, 19) / Parts of a Paragraph - English Academic Writing Introduction / Retrieved from https://youtu.be/cCuExRE6N-4

EExamples of topic sentences:

       1) Although the interpretation of traffic signals may seem highly standardized, close observation reveals regional variations across this country, distinguishing the East Coast from Central Canada and the West as surely as dominant dialects or political inclinations

I      In Montreal, a flashing red traffic light instructs drivers to careen even more wildly through intersections heavily populated with pedestrians and oncoming vehicles. In startling contrast, an amber light in Calgary warns drivers to scream to a halt on the off chance that there might be a pedestrian within 500 meters who might consider crossing at some unspecified time within the current day. In my home town in New Brunswick, finally, traffic lights (along with painted lines and posted speed limits) do not apply to tractors, all terrain vehicles, or pickup trucks, which together account for most vehicles on the road. In fact, were any observant Canadian dropped from an alien space vessel at an unspecified intersection anywhere in this vast land, he or she could almost certainly orient him-or-herself according to the surrounding traffic patterns.

      2) We commonly look on the discipline of war as vastly more rigid than any discipline necessary in time of peace, but this is an error. 

TThe strictest military discipline imaginable is still looser than that prevailing in the average assembly-line. The soldier, at worst, is still able to exercise the highest conceivable functions of freedom -- that is, he or she is permitted to steal and to kill. No discipline prevailing in peace gives him or her anything remotely resembling this. The soldier is, in war, in the position of a free adult; in peace he or she is almost always in the position of a child. In war all things are excused by success, even violations of discipline. In peace, speaking generally, success is inconceivable except as a function of discipline.

       3) Many politicians deplore the passing of the old family-sized farm, but I'm not so sure.

 I I saw around Velva a release from what was like slavery to the tyrannical soil, release from the ignorance that darkens the soul and from the loneliness that corrodes it. In this generation my Velva friends have rejoined the general American society that their pioneering fathers left behind when they first made the barren trek in the days of the wheat rush. As I sit here in Washington writing this, I can feel their nearness.

University of Ottawa, The Writing Centre- Writing paragraphs / Review topic sentences (citation needed)