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A body paragraph should consist of a topic sentence, a couple of supporting sentences, and a concluding sentence. The topic sentence is usually the main idea of the body paragraph. The reader should be able to tell what you paragraph is all about just based on the topic sentence. The supporting sentences can be examples or elaboration on the topic sentence. The body paragraph, when written as an essay is usually just about one topic from the introduction of an essay.

Dialogue method:

1. Whats your point?
2. I don’t get it
3. prove it
4. so what?

Rewrite using dialogue method: A body paragraph is a paragraph that is after an introduction and usually elaborates and emphasizes on one point of the introduction. It goes in depth and explains more thoroughly the idea of the point that is being stated. The body paragraph usually consists of a topic sentence which is usually the main topic being discussed, supporting sentences which are used to elaborate and support the topic sentence, and finally the concluding sentence which generalizes the main ideas being discussed. Without body paragraphs in any forms of writing the reader would not be able to fully understand what is trying to be conveyed. Body paragraphs are important to any piece of writing because they give the reader a more detailed perspective of the message or messages that you are trying to convince.

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