Content Flow of a Typical Body-Paragraph
1. Topic Sentence
2. Detail about the topic to transition to
the supportive content.
3. Development of
the topic (for the upcoming source usage).
4. Introduce the source.
5. Quote, Paraphrase, or Summarize the source.
6. Explain how the source relates to the topic and ultimately
defends the argument of the body-paragraph—as it relates to the thesis
statement.
7. Closing sentence—that wraps up the point of the
body-paragraph while relating directly to the topic sentence's overall main
idea.
Each of
the colored sections above show which areas are working together to accomplish
different aspects of logical writing in the body-paragraph. The topic and
closing sentence (in yellow) work
together to reflect toward or back to each other. The details and
development of the topic (in green)
work to establish your argument and a sub-point of the thesis statement.
The pink areas work to
integrate an outside, scholarly source properly, and then the body-paragraph
closing sentence (yellow) wraps up the
whole concept while reflecting back to the topic sentence (yellow) of the body-paragraph.
While
this is the minimum format for a body-paragraph, a fully developed
body-paragraph will often have 2 or 3 sandwiches within it. However, the
minimum for any body-paragraph of an academic essay is to use at least one
outside scholarly source to lend supportive credibility to your argument.
Therefore, all body-paragraphs will have at least 1 sandwich in them. See
the outline below for a sample body-paragraph with 2 source sandwiches.
Content Flow of a Well-Developed Body-Paragraph
1. Topic Sentence
2. Detail about the topic to transition to
the supportive content.
3. Development of
the topic (for the upcoming source usage).
4. Introduce the source.
5. Quote, Paraphrase, or Summarize the source.
6. Explain how the source relates to the topic and ultimately
defends the argument of the body-paragraph—as it relates to the thesis
statement.
7. Detail about another aspect of
this body-paragraph sub-point topic to transition to
the supportive content.
8. Development of
the new aspect of this sub-point topic (for the
upcoming source usage).
9. Introduce the source.
10. Quote, Paraphrase, or Summarize the source.
11. Explain how the source relates to the topic (which was
established in the topic sentence of this body-paragraph) and ultimately
defends the argument of the body-paragraph—as it relates to the thesis
statement.
12. Closing sentence
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