Once you have your thesis and simple blueprint and have composed your topic sentences, you are ready to start supporting or proving your points. You may have noticed that your Sample Essay Blueprint (pp. 13-15) contains three supports per body paragraph; however, the key is to be thorough. That said, three supports can often be adequate as long as each support is more than one sentence and vividly detailed.

Week 3 IntroductionOverviewOnce you have your thesis and blueprint you will be able to form your topic sentences.  Ch. 3 will help you do the following:Understand that topic sentences for each of your body paragraphs are based on your thesis and simple blueprintBegin each topic sentence with an appropriate transitionInclude a reminder of the critical opinion in the thesis in each topic sentenceExpress the main point fromthe simple blueprint in each corresponding topic sentenceOnce you have your thesis and simple blueprint and have composed your topic sentences, you are ready to start supporting or proving your points. You may have noticed that your Sample Essay Blueprint (pp. 13-15) contains three supports per body paragraph; however, the key is to be thorough. That said, three supports can often be adequate as long as each support is more than one sentence and vividly detailed.You achieve coherence in your writing when you provide lots of details and link your ideas in one sentence to the ideas in the sentences that come before and after it (as well as to the topic sentence).Learning Objectives for Ch. 4Discuss different types of support.Write brief examples of quick, concrete supports.Develop coherence by making support more detailed and concrete.Apply appropriate transitions to express the meaning relationship between sentences.Verify unity within a body paragraph to confirm supports point back to the opinion in the topic sentence.Support critical opinion in the thesis through unity within an essay.