Supporting Your Points or the body of your essay

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Supporting Your Pointsorthe body of your
essay
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Support consists of evidenceexamples,fac
ts that show, explain or prove your main point or
thesis.
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Primary supportSecondary support
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Each support should relate to your main
point or thesis and should be detailed and
specific. Give enough details to make the reader
see what you mean.
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Drop unrelated ideas
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Select the best support points
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Add supporting details
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Write Topic sentences for your Support Points
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Make a plan and arrange your ideas
usingChronological orderSpatial orderand
Emphatic order
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Use transitions to link your paragraphs to help
the reader see how the subtopics are related.
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This transition may be a single word,a
phrase,or a dependent clause that repeats or
summarizes the main idea in the preceding
paragraph.
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Refer to the plan to write complete
paragraphs that support your thesis.
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Each paragraph should contain a topic
sentence that presents a primary support point
followed by supporting details
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Essays have at least three body paragraphs
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Which sentence provides more specific details?
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Aunt Frances is an extremely superstitious
person.A. She will not go out of the house on a
Friday the 13th or walk under a ladder.B. She
has a lot of unfounded fears that she has talked
herself into.
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2.Although Americans and the British both speak
English, they use different vocabulary.A. Common
everyday items are named differently, for
example.B. An American uses an elevator to get
to her apartment while an Englishman uses the
lift to get to his flat.
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The end!