Writing a strong topic sentence that establishes the subject of the paragraph; Using "echo words" -- i.e., consistent terms for the concepts throughout; Applying transitions to link sentences ...

way, however, as a topic sentence or as a kind of syntactic punctuation, a very short sentence can be effective. As an illustration, Tufte chooses a paragraph by F. Scott ...

Your choice is the topic sentence of the paragraph. INCORRECT. Try again. CORRECT! Your choice is the second of two topic sentences in this paragraph. Return to Paragraph Structure. Address and Phone.