Revision Step 2 Idea Development Good Body Paragraphs

Revision Step 2: Idea Development

Good Body Paragraphs: �Make one main point… � Contain enough support, drawing from many kinds of evidence to develop the main point… �It has some type of organizational plan �It contains no material that does not relate to its point �It has precise language

Finding Examples �From your memory… �From personal interviews… �From your own observations… �From the media… �From your imagination…

Organizing Examples �Chronological �Spatial �Emphatic

Suggestion… Body Paragraph Outline � � � � � Topic Sentence (Contains the main idea of the paragraph and the limiting idea): _________________________________________________ Primary Support Statement (a sentence that generally supports the topic sentence): ____________________________________________ Secondary Support Statement (or concrete illustration, which supplies a specific detail about the primary support statement): _______________________________________________________________ Primary Support Statement: __________________________________________________________________ Secondary Support Statement: ______________________________________________________________ Primary Support Statement: _________________________________________________________________ Secondary Support Statement: ______________________________________________________________ Concluding Sentence: (optional) ___________________________________________________________________

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