Staff Site Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta Handout Writing III

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As you learned in Units 4 and 5, a paragraph is a group of sentences about one

topic and has three main parts: lhe topic sentence, the body (supporting
6entences), and the concluding sentence, Similarly an essay is a gloup of
paragraphs about one topic and also has three main parts: the introduction, the
body, and the conclusion. The diagram below shows that a paragraph and an
essay have the same basic plal; an essay is just longer.

THE ESSAY
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TOPIC SENTENCE
Supportiog Sentences
(Concluding Sentence)

TOPIC SENTENCE
SupportlnS Sentences
(Concluding Sentence)

TOPIC SENTENCE
Supportin6 Sentences
(Concluding Sentence)

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SENTENCE(S)

Concluding Paragraph
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