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it might be helpful to prepare a bank of topic sentence stems or starters. For example, the first two topic sentences in a basic critical essay on the theme of Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 18 ...

Step 1: Students should have already written a draft (or most of a draft). Step 2: Show students an example of a color-coded outline of topic sentences (see below for two examples). Step 2: Have students use this same color coding to assess their own drafts.

Each of the topic sentences below is poorly written. A pull-down menu after each sentence lists the following possible problems with the topic sentence: Too general: CORRECT! This topic sentence is too general. Too specific: INCORRECT. TRY AGAIN.