范文大全_Chapter 20- Writing a Paragraph- Generating Ideas Thought Lines

Chapter 20: Writing a Paragraph: Generating Ideas Thought Lines　　The first steps in the writing proc

Chapter 20: Writing aParagraph: Generating Ideas Thought Lines The first steps in the writing process are the most crucial for developing awell-written unified paragraph. These steps are called Thought Lines. Taking the time to develop and focus your ideas will ensure good writing. Ideas for writing can be developed in three basic ways: freewriting, brainstorming, and journaling. Each technique helps you generate ideas on abroad topic. Those ideas can become the specific idea you want to develop into aparagraph. Once you have generated ideas, they can be organized by grouping the ideas in your list and then labeling each group or by creating amap or cluster of related ideas. Once you have evaluated your groups of ideas, you can develop a topic sentence that reflects the point you want to make about your ideas. Atopic sentence is asingle sentence that conveys the main idea you want to make. Your paragraph will then use many of the details you generated through your brainstorming to support the topic sentence. Agood topic sentence will be narrow