TAPP Topic Audience Purpose Plan Topic The Main

TAPP Topic Audience Purpose Plan

Topic (The Main Idea) Sports Friends School Pets

Audience People who… Anyone who might read the piece of writing.

Purpose Inform Entertain Express Persuade

Plan • Beginning: One reason, First, For example, One example, To begin with, To start with… • Middle: Second, third, Another reason, Another example, Also, As well as, Too, In addition, Additionally… • Ending: Last, Finally, In conclusion, In summary, In short, So you can see, As one can see, to summarize, Hence…

Writer’s Checklist • Keep the topic in mind. • Keep your audience in mind. • Support your ideas with details, explanations, and examples. • State your ideas in a clear sequence. • Include an opening and a closing. • Use a variety of words and vary your sentence structure. • State your opinion or conclusion clearly. • Capitalize, spell, and use punctuation correctly. • Write neatly.

Paragraphs • A paragraph is a group of sentences that tells about one main idea. The first line of the paragraph is indented. • The topic sentence expresses the main idea of the paragraph. It tells what all the other sentences in the paragraph are about. The topic sentence is often the first sentence in the paragraph. • The other sentences in the paragraph are detail sentences. Detail sentences add information about the topic sentence. They help the audience understand more about the main idea.

How to Write a Paragraph • Write a topic sentence that clearly tells the main idea of the paragraph. • Indent the first line. • Write detail sentences that tell about the main idea.

Persuasive Paragraph • A persuasive paragraph starts with a topic sentence that gives the writer’s opinion. The Sentences of the body support the topic sentence, and the closing sentence restates the writer’s opinion.