Writing the Body

Paragraphs
Insert Insert a Topic Sentence (P)

Explain Explain Your Topic Sentence (E)

A strong body
paragraph
Insert Insert Your Evidence
have the
Explain Explain Your Evidence (E)
following :
Insert Insert a Concluding Sentence (L)
 Why?
• Encapsulates and organizes an entire
Insert a topic paragraph.
sentence • What’s going on in your paragraph?
• What point are your trying to make?
 • Does your topic sentence require
further explanation?
Explain Your
Topic
Sentence
 • Academic papers require students to
integrate evidence (quotes, statistics,
case studies) to support the claim(s).
Insert Your • When introducing quotes, always

Evidence a) identify the source and

b) b) summarize to provide context.
c) terms may be used to introduce
quoted material: asserts, believes,
claims, comments, defines, describes,
explains, indicates, proposes,
Explain what the quote means and why its important to your argument.

Explain your evidence (WARRANT)

No matter how good your evidence is, it won’t help your argument much if
your reader doesn’t know why it’s important.

Ask yourself: how does this evidence prove the point you are trying to
make in this paragraph and/or your paper as a whole?

Can be opinion based and is often at least 1-3 sentences

Insert a Concluding Sentence

• End your paragraph with a

concluding sentence or sentences
that reasserts how your paragraph
contributes to the development of
your argument as a whole.