Business English 10th Edition by Mary Ellen Guffey,Carolyn Seefer

Exercise 133

Skill Check 3.1: Organizing a Paragraph
In a letter to the college president, the athletic director is arguing for a new stadium scoreboard. One paragraph will describe the old scoreboard and why it needs to be replaced. Study the following list of ideas for that paragraph.
1. The old scoreboard was originally constructed in the 1960s.
2. It is now hard to find replacement parts for it when something breaks.
3. The old scoreboard is not energy efficient.
4. Coca-Cola has offered to buy a new sports scoreboard in return for exclusive rights to sell soda on campus.
5. The old scoreboard should be replaced for many reasons.
6. It shows only scores for football games.
7. When we have soccer games or track meets, we are without any functioning scoreboard.
a. Which sentence should be the topic sentence _______________
b. Which sentence(s) should be developed in a different paragraph ________________
c. Which sentences should follow the topic sentence ______________