Today, on October 10, I attended the Writing Center Workshop where the topic was Controlling an Argument with Topic Sentences. Upon entering, I was expecting a huge room with dozens of students since it was a workshop. However, there were only about 8 of us in the room which was actually a positive thing since the consultant could have a one on one conversation with you. We were presented by an enthusiastic consultant who was luckily not just a boring old writing teacher which made the workshop more fun to work at. She gave us three paper that talked about model topic sentences and we had to break down the topic sentences and show why they are considered to be model. Next, on the other paper, we had to identify the type of topic sentences that was provided. I learned that the thesis they provided had not just one but three types of ways the author presents their thesis. We learned that the thesis helped analyze the rhetorical functions of figurative language + personification, that it identifies the effects of the reader, and that it complicates the reading by revealing a counterintuitive pattern. The consultant also gave us advice that any good essay on poetry should always show how the poem affects the reader. On the third paper, we had to find out how the previous topic sentences we worked on related to the thesis. After that, we had to explain how they relate to the other paragraphs. This workshop was really helpful in assisting me as I have always had trouble connecting or writing topic sentences that relate to the thesis. I would always either have a good thesis but bad topic sentences or a bad thesis with good topic sentences. I plan to go to more workshops in the writing center in the near future as I have to write an 8 page essay for my writing class even though I have never written more than 3 before.