English Skills with Readings 8th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 79

The following activity will give you practice in writing an accurate point, or topic sentence-one that is neither too broad nor too narrow for the supporting material in a paragraph. Sometimes you will construct your topic sentence after you have decided which details you want to discuss. An added value of this activity is that it shows you how to write a topic sentence that will exactly match the details you have developed.
Topic sentence: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
a. Thomas Jefferson read Latin, Greek, French, Italian, and other foreign languages.
b. His library contained more than 6,400 books.
c. He designed his magnificent mansion at Monticello after teaching himself architecture.
d. He was an excellent writer, an accomplished musician, and a political genius.